Amina Mama, Nigeria

Chair in Gender Studies - African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town (since 1999)
Director - African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town (1999 - 2002)

Her research has addressed gender, state and politics in various African contexts, women's organizations and movements, racial oppression and theorizing subjectivity.

Publications include:
"Challenging Subjects: Gender, Power and Identity in African Contexts", Academic Literature, Nordic Africa Institute, 2001
"Women's Studies and Studies of Women in Africa During the 1990s", CODESRIA, 1996
"Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity", Routledge, 1995

Editor of "Feminist Africa"

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