Amina Mama

Amina Mama is a widely published Nigerian feminist scholar, currently the Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair at Mills College in Oakland, California. She previously served for 10 years as the first Chair in Gender Studies at the University of Cape Town’s African Gender Institute, a regional teaching and research unit dedicated to intellectual work for the pursuit of gender justice in Africa. Current research interests are militarism, higher education, and the gender politics of development. Her major publications include Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity (Routledge 1995), Women’s Studies and Studies of Women in Africa (CODESRIA Green Book 1996), Engendering African Social Sciences (co-edited, CODESRIA 1997) and articles in a wide range of academic journals. She serves as founding editor of the African journal of gender studies, Feminist Africa, chairs the Board of Directors of the Global Fund for Women, and sits on the Gender Advisory Committee of the African Union, the United Nations Committee for Development Planning, and the Board of Directors of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.