12 Facts About Amina Mama

Amina Mama was born on 19 September 1958 and is a Nigerian-British writer, activist and academic.

Amina Mama has lived in Africa, Europe and North America, and worked to bridge the gap between feminists and related movements across the globe.

Amina Mama's father is Nigerian and her mother is English.

Amina Mama moved to the United Kingdom and attained a Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, a Master of Science in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London and a doctorate in organizational psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Amina Mama's thesis was titled "Race and Subjectivity: A Study of Black Women".

Amina Mama moved to the Netherlands and then back to Nigeria, only to encounter more upheaval in 2000.

In 2008, Amina Mama accepted a position at Mills College in Oakland, California.

Amina Mama was the chair of the board of directors for the Global Fund for Women, and continues to advise several other international organisations.

Amina Mama has sat on the board of directors of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and serves on the advisory board for the feminist academic journals Meridians and Signs.

Between 2020 and 2022, Amina Mama served the Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies, which is situated in Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana.

Amina Mama has criticised discourses of women in development for stripping gender studies of politically meaningful feminism.

Amina Mama is an outspoken critic of AFRICOM, which she describes as part of violent neocolonial resource extraction.