Amina Mama
Amina Mama is a professor and member of the Faculty in the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. Her main areas of focus have been post-colonial, militarist and gender issues. She has lived and worked in Nigeria, South Africa, Britain, the Netherlands and the USA working to build relationships between feminist intellectuals across the globe. She spent 10 years (1999-2009) leading the establishment of the University of Cape Town’s African Gender Institute as a continental resource dedicated to developing transformative scholarship, bringing feminist theory and activism together. She is the founding editor of the continental journal of gender studies, Feminist Africa. Her publications include Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity (Routledge 1995), Women’s Studies and Studies of Women in Africa (CODESRIA 1996), Engendering African Social Sciences (co-edited, CODESRIA 1997) and numerous book chapters and journal articles. Committed to strengthening activism and activist research in African contexts, her research interests include culture and subjectivity, politics and policy, women’s movements and militarism. She and Yaba Badoe co-produced the 50-minute documentary film The Witches of Gambaga 2010.
