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Amina Mama was born on 19 September, 1958 in Kaduna, Colonial Nigeria, is a Nigerian-British writer, feminist and academic. Discover Amina Mama's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?
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Amina Mama Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Amina Mama worth at the age of 65 years old? Amina Mama’s income source is mostly from being a successful writer. She is from Nigeria. We have estimated Amina Mama's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
Amina Mama (born 19 September 1958) is a Nigerian-British writer, feminist and academic.
Her main areas of focus have been post-colonial, militarist and gender issues.
She has lived in Africa, Europe and North America, and worked to build relationships between feminist intellectuals across the globe.
Mama was born in a mixed race household.
Her father is Nigerian and her mother is English.
Her ancestral roots on her paternal side trace back to Bida.
Several members of Mama's family were involved in the development of the post-colonial local educational system.
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.
Her thesis was titled "Race and Subjectivity: A Study of Black Women".
Some of her early work involves comparing the situations of British and Nigerian women.
She moved to the Netherlands and then back to Nigeria, only to encounter more upheaval in 2000.
Then she moved to South Africa, where she began to work at the historically white University of Cape Town (UCT).
At UCT, she became the director of the African Gender Institute and co-founded Feminist Africa, which is the first continental journal of gender studies and activism
In 2008, Mama accepted a position at Mills College in Oakland, California.
After moving, she commented: "I have learned America isn't just a big, bad source of imperialism."
She was appointed the Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership at Mills, and co-taught a class called "Real Policy, Real Politics" with Congresswoman Lee on topics concerning African and African-American women, including gender roles, poverty, HIV/AIDS, and militarism.
she appointed Chair of the Department of Gender and Women Studies at the University of California, Davis.
Mama was the chair of the board of directors for the Global Fund for Women, and continues to advise several other international organisations.
She 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.
In 2010, she co-produced the movie The Witches of Gambaga with Yaba Badoe.
Mama describes herself as a feminist and not a womanist, arguing that feminism originates in Africa and that white feminism "has never been strong enough to be 'enemy'—in the way that say, global capitalism can be viewed as an enemy".
She has criticised discourses of women in development for stripping gender studies of politically meaningful feminism.
She has also argued that African universities continue to show entrenched patriarchy, in terms of both interpersonal sexism and institutional gender gaps.
A primary area of interest for Mama has been gender identity as it relates to global militarism.
She is an outspoken critic of AFRICOM, which she describes as part of violent neocolonial resource extraction.
Between 2020 and 2022, Mama served the Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies, which is situated in Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana.
One of her best known works is Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity.
She is also involved in film work.