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This provocative and vital book, in elegant prose and lucid arguments, centers the black female experience. Accounting for the omissions by patriarchy and white feminism, she confronts the central privilege of modern thought. Inclusive, rigorous in process and thought, Minna Salami has created a strong and important testament for now and the future. --Chris Abani, author of The Face and The Secret History of Las Vegas. Minna Salami's brilliant new black feminist thought treasures art and science on the same scale. Approaches art as tool, not just emotional stimuli, but rather, valued learning for a better understanding of radical feminine political agenda, the role of imperialism, and an expansion of what we consider scientific. She eloquently attacks euro-patriarchal knowledge, while giving space and value to the spiritual work grounded in a bountiful African-Centered Womanist Theory. In the legacy of bell hooks and Alice Walker, Minna Salami is a fierce, complex, necessary, philosophical voice for the next generation of powerful feminine global citizens. --jessica Care Moore, author of We Want Our Bodies Back A timely, refreshing, nourishing and captivating read. In the era of ever widening division and cultural strife, Sensuous Knowledge urges us to rethink power, sisterhood, beauty, identity and more. A crucial read which through the sharing of African-centered approaches alleviate political and social frustrations. On these pages there really is something to learn for everyone. --Ayishat Akanbi, writer, cultural commentator, fashion stylist Sensuous Knowledge is an opulent symphony of progressive ideas vast and astonishing. Drawing from Audre Lorde to Socrates, Swami Satyananda Saraswati to Nipsey Hustle, and more, Minna Salami mixes her lived experience into a deeply considered and tempered tide that swells with wisdom and redefines various parts of our unbalanced and gendered world. It is emotive emanating with love and begs us to search ourselves for who we might yet become. --Inua Ellams, author of The Half-God of Rainfall Sensuous Knowledge is a probing, challenging and imaginative book that dares position black feminism as the prism through which we can better experience and understand the world. I savored it as intellectual soul food, while relishing the richness of Minna Salami's ideas and the persuasiveness of her writing. This book is an important addition to the feminist canon in that it shifts our world view and introduces new and exciting possibilities for ways of being. --Bernardine Evaristo, Man Booker Award-Winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Sensuous Knowledge is an eloquent melange of ideas and disciplines; part deep, intersectional analysis of structural power, part metaphysical journey into a genius the West hasn't given language to. An essential read for a new decade. --Johny Pitts, author of Afropean Minna Salami's brilliant new black feminist thought treasures art and science on the same scale. Approaches art as tool, not just emotional stimuli, but rather, valued learning for a better understanding of radical feminine political agenda, the role of imperialism, and an expansion of what we consider scientific. She eloquently attacks euro-patriarchal knowledge, while giving space and value to the spiritual work grounded in a bountiful African-Centered Womanist Theory. In the legacy of bell hooks and Alice Walker, Minna Salami is a fierce, complex, necessary, philosophical voice for the next generation of powerful feminine global citizens.--jessica Care Moore, author of We Want Our Bodies Back A timely, refreshing, nourishing and captivating read. In the era of ever widening division and cultural strife, Sensuous Knowledge urges us to rethink power, sisterhood, beauty, identity and more. A crucial read which through the sharing of African-centered approaches alleviate political and social frustrations. On these pages there really is something to learn for everyone. --Ayishat Akanbi, writer, cultural commentator, fashion stylist Sensuous Knowledge is an opulent symphony of progressive ideas vast and astonishing. Drawing from Audre Lorde to Socrates, Swami Satyananda Saraswati to Nipsey Hustle, and more, Minna Salami mixes her lived experience into a deeply considered and tempered tide that swells with wisdom and redefines various parts of our unbalanced and gendered world. It is emotive emanating with love and begs us to search ourselves for who we might yet become. --Inua Ellams, author of The Half-God of Rainfall Sensuous Knowledge is a probing, challenging and imaginative book that dares position black feminism as the prism through which we can better experience and understand the world. I savored it as intellectual soul food, while relishing the richness of Minna Salami's ideas and the persuasiveness of her writing. This book is an important addition to the feminist canon in that it shifts our world view and introduces new and exciting possibilities for ways of being. --Bernardine Evaristo, Man Booker Award-Winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Sensuous Knowledge is an eloquent melange of ideas and disciplines; part deep, intersectional analysis of structural power, part metaphysical journey into a genius the West hasn't given language to. An essential read for a new decade.--Johny Pitts, author of Afropean

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Minna Salami is Nigerian, Finnish, and Swedish author, blogger, and social critic, and international keynote speaker. She is the founder of the multiple award-winning blog, MsAfropolitan, which connects feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an Africa-centered perspective. Listed by Elle Magazine as ""one of twelve women changing the world"" alongside Angelina Jolie and Michelle Obama, Minna has presented talks on feminism, liberation, decolonization, sexuality, African Studies, and popular culture to audiences at the European Parliament, the Oxford Union, Yale University, TEDx, The Singularity University at NASA, and UN Women. She is a contributor to The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and the Royal Society of the Arts, and a columnist for the Guardian Nigeria. She lives in London.

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