GFAC Live! November 2025 – Minna Salami
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Event details:
Countering Collapse with African Feminist Thought Leadership
“Prepare for the worst” – this is the message of our times. That we are teetering on the brink of collapse, ecological, economic, political, cultural, spiritual. That confusion and fatigue are pervasive: and authoritarianism, populism, and oligarchy the new reality. In such times, meaningful social transformation is undeniably more elusive than ever. Yet, is there space for change? Can new political philosophies, new epistemologies, and revitalised imaginaries provide vision? These questions inform Minna‘s talk, which explores how African feminism offers a critical and emancipatory language for understanding and reimagining the narratives that define our world.
Event Speaker(s):
Minna Salami
Author, Thought Leader, Senior Fellow & Program ChairÂ
Minna Salami is a feminist author, thought leader, and programme chair with over 15 years of experience shaping public conversations on feminism, African knowledge systems, and sociocultural transformation.
As Senior Fellow and Chair of the Black Feminism and the Polycrisis programme at THE NEW INSTITUTE, she works at the intersection of ideas, culture, and systems thinking and is dedicated to making complex theories accessible through books, essays, public speaking, and creative projects.
Salami is the author of Can Feminism Be African? (Harper Collins, 2025) and Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone (Bloomsbury, 2020), which has been translated into multiple languages. In addition to these works, she has contributed chapters and essays to numerous other books, anthologies, and educational publications exploring feminism, African philosophy, media, and cultural criticism.
Her writing has been featured in high-profile publications such as The Guardian, Financial Times, Project Syndicate, Al Jazeera, and The Philosopher. She has delivered talks at prestigious global institutions, including TEDx, the European Commission, Friends of Europe, the Oxford and Cambridge Unions, Yale, and Singularity University at NASA.
Salami was the creative director of the short film Black Feminism and the Polycrisis, which won the Silver Award for Public Service and Activism at the 2024 Lovie Awards.
From 2019 to 2022, Salami co-directed Activate, an intersectional feminist movement that supported minoritised women in politics and community organising through visibility campaigns, strategic mentoring, and fundraising initiatives. This initiative played a key role in shifting narratives and resources towards a more inclusive and representative political landscape in the UK.
She has also worked as a Research Associate and Editor at Perspectiva, advised governments on gender equality, developed national school curricula, and curated cultural events, including at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Her blog MsAfropolitan, launched in 2010, has reached over a million readers and remains a platform for exploring feminist and African-centred approaches to contemporary issues.
Salami is a Full Member of the Club of Rome, a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader, and serves on the advisory boards of the African Feminist Initiative at Penn State University and Public Humanities at Cambridge University Press, and the council of the British Royal Institute of Philosophy.
Headshot Photo Credit: Luzia Cruz I THE NEW INSTITUTE
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