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Minna Salami talking about religion, politics and gender on Colourful Radio

Minna Salami discusses Boko Haram, Nigerian unity and #BringBackOurGirls with Paul Henley and Helen Scales on BBC Weekend Radio.

BBC World Radio Weekend Programme Interview with Minna Salami

Interview in May 2014 with radio host Tokini Fubara of The F Word UMFM-CJUM 101.5FM, Winnipeg, Canada. Discussion covers the politics of African Feminism, Fela's song "Lady", bell hooks calling Beyoncé a terrorist, fashion, pan-Africanism and more.

The F Word Radio - Interview with Minna Salami

This is why I find it increasingly important to speak about mystical and mysterious experience. To insist that the mystical and the philosophical are, or at least should be, part of the same language.

In a podcast for Things Unseen, a podcast channel for people that are interested in spiritual matters, I spoke about some of my personal experiences with mysticism. Read more on www.msafropolitan.com/mysticism

A - Z Of Things Unseen  M Is For Mysticism

Never before has feminism been as mainstream as it is today. Celebrities like Beyoncé, Cardi B and Taylor Swift have popularised the term, as have major brands, Dior, Acne, H&M, to name a few. Feminism has also become a lucrative way to sell a product or service through “femvertising” as the strategic incorporation of feminist principles into advertising campaigns is queasily called. International bodies such as the UN and the EU now include feminist principles in their projects and political leaders – Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron… – are feminist advocates. Hollywood has picked up on the trend too with productions like The Handmaid’s Tale, Wonder Woman and Mother and feminist book sales on Amazon are rocketing. Even the Pope is discussing feminism (if not wholeheartedly championing it)!

What are the perils and the promises of feminism splurging into the mainstream? In a culture where feminist practice increasingly goes hand-in-hand with celebrity hype, product sales, organised religion, patriarchal imperialist expansion (PIE) and political campaigning, can feminism retain the radical and revolutionary spirit that has underpinned it historically? As feminists face an unprecedented kind of three-headed monster made up in equal parts of sexism, racism and capitalism, this Keynote talk which I was honoured and delighted to present at the 125th anniversary of Scandinavia's oldest feminist union Naisunioni in Finland on 29 September, argues that such a spirit is more necessary than ever. Let's make feminism the leading ideology of the future not because it became mainstream, but because the mainstream became feminist.

The Future of Feminism Must Be Fearless, Illuminating and Global-Minded

MsAfropolitan is an award-winning, pan-African feminist blog, written by Minna Salami. Get in touch at msafropolitan.com.

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