2025-02-10
48 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.
Our guest today is Meena Salami, the feminist author, social critic and current program chair at the New Institute.
Her first book was Sensuous A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone, and her writing can be found in the Guardian,
Project Syndicate, Al Jazeera and the Philosopher, among many others.
In her new book, Salami explores the question, can feminism be African?
Drawing from feminist thought, postcolonial theory, historical insights and African knowledge systems,
Salami combines personal reflection with cultural criticism to offer a vivid and cohesive discussion about power,
identity, patriarchy, imagination and the human condition.
Joining Salami to discuss the book is Hannah Dawson,
historian of ideas and editor of the Penguin Book of Feminist Writing.
Let's join Hannah now with more.
Hello and welcome to Intelligence Squared.
I'm Hannah Dawson and I'm extremely glad to be joined today on the podcast by Meena Salami.
Meena is Research Chair and Senior Fellow at the New Institute in Hamburg, Germany.
She is a writer, social critic and public intellectual,
a renowned speaker who speaks around the world and has spoken at a number of extremely august institutions,
the un, the eu, the Oxford Union, the Cambridge Union, Yale University and NASA.
She's published widely, been contributor to various books as well as in the mainstream press such as the Guardian,
Al Jazeera and the Philosopher.