Amina Mama Member

Amina Mama is a transdisciplinary feminist educator, researcher and organiser, and a professor in the Dept of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Davis. Mama’s most influential books include Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity (Routledge 1995); and Engendering African Social Sciences (co-edited with Fatou Sow and Ayesha Imam, CODESRIA 1997). She has over 30 years of experience working with women’s movements and teaching feminist studies on university campuses in Africa, Europe and the USA. Her most prestigious appointments have included the Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity at University of Utrecht (2004), the Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair at Mill’s College (2007-2009), the Angela Davis Guest Professor in Social Justice at the Cornelia Goethe Centre, University of Frankfurt (2016), and the Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies (2020-2022). Until 2021 she served as a founding Editor of the digital gender studies journal Feminist Africa. She co-produced two documentary films The Witches of Gambaga 2011, and The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo 2014, both with filmmaker Yaba Badoe of Fadoa Films. Amina continues to pursue her interests through writing, collaborative action-research, documentation and film projects.