Amina Mama

Quick Facts

Full Name	Amina Mama
Occupation	Academic
Date Of Birth	Sep 19, 1958(1958-09-19)
Age	66
Birthplace	Kaduna
Country	Nigeria
Birth City	Kaduna State
Horoscope	Virgo

Amina Mama Biography

Amina Mama is one of the most popular and richest Academic who was born on September 19, 1958 in Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria. Mama was born in the northern part of Nigeria in the year 1958. She was raised in an ethnically diverse household. Mama’s father was Nigerian as is her mom who’s English. According to Mama her, her varied family history and education has shaped her outlook on life. In 1992, she got married Nuruddin Farah who is her partner and mother of two kids.

The year 2008 was the time that Mama took up a job as a professor at Mills College in Oakland, California, United States. Following her move, she said: “I have learned America isn’t just a big, bad source of imperialism.” Professor Mama has been named the Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Mills’ Women’s Leadership. She was the first woman to be appointed to this post. She taught a class titled “Real Policy, Real Politics” along with Congresswoman Lee on issues affecting African as well as African American women. These included gender roles as well as HIV/AIDS, poverty and militarism. She also served as Chair of the Department of Gender and Women Studies at the University of California, Davis.

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.

Mama relocated from Nigeria into the UK and continued her education through her home institution, the University of St. Andrews, Scotland (1980, Bachelor of Science with Honours in Psychology) and studying at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London (1981 Masters in Science in Sociological Psychology) as well as at Birkbeck college, University of London, where she was awarded the doctorate degree in organization psychology. She wrote her thesis titled “Race and Subjectivity: A Study of Black Women”. One of her first projects involves comparing the experiences that women in British women and Nigerian women. She was transferred to the Netherlands before returning to Nigeria and was confronted with another wave of turmoil in the year 2000. After that, she relocated into South Africa, where she began her work for the historically black University of Cape Town (UCT). In UCT she was appointed head of the African Gender Institute (AGI) and also helped in the establishment of the magazine Feminist Africa. Mama continues to be as the Editor of Feminist Africa.

Amina Mama Net Worth

Amina Mama is one of the richest Academic from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Amina Mama 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Amina Mama (born 19 September 1958) is a Nigerian-British author feminist, academic and writer. Her primary areas of interest are post-colonial, militarist, and gender-related issues. The woman has lived all over Africa, Europe, and North America, and worked to establish relationships with feminist intellectuals around the world.

She was raised in Kaduna the most multi-ethnic and religiously diverse city located in northern Nigeria. Her family’s roots from her paternal side date through Bida. A number of members of Mama’s clan were part of the development of the postcolonial local education system. In 1966 Mama left her family in Nigeria due to anti-Muslim protests.

One of her best known works is Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity. She is also involved in film work. In 2010, she co-produced the movie The Witches of Gambaga with Yaba Badoe.

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Amina Ranked on the list of most popular Academic. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Nigeria. Amina Mama celebrates birthday on September 19 of every year.