Amina Mama, Ph.D.

Amina Mama is Nigerian-British academic, UK. She holds a Ph.D in organizational psychology from the University of London’s Birkbeck College, and works as a transdisciplinary feminist educator, researcher and organizer. She is currently a Professor in the Dept of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Davis. Mama’s most influential books are 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 40 years of experience working with African and transnational women’s movements and developing feminist studies curriculums at universities in Africa, Europe and the USA. She served as the Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies (2020-2022. She served 20 years as founding editor of the digital gender studies journal Feminist Africa, and co-produced two documentary films The Witches of Gambaga 2011, and The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo 2014, with Ghanaian filmmaker Yaba Badoe. Amina continues to pursue her interests and activism through writing, collaborative action-research, documentation and film projects.