Amina Mama
February 27, 2023
Black is Always in Reaction to Race
So location, nation, which part of the black clouds you are from is hugely important. If politics happens locally and people live in material realities that are very different, you can't just dream of the unity. We have to actually address the contradictions within and among black people.
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Amina Mama is a Pan-African feminist intellectual, a writer and academic. Amina is a founding editor of Feminist Africa, a co-producer of two documentary films, The Witches of Gambaga (2011) and The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo (2014). Her published books include The Hidden Struggle: Statutory and Voluntary Sector Responses to Violence Against Black Women in the Home (1989), Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender, and Subjectivity (1995), National Machinery for Women in Africa: Towards an analysis (2000).