Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed & Msia Kibona Clark

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed is an assistant professor of global media at the College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on feminisms, decolonization, and communication for social change. She has worked as a radio journalist in Ghana and some of her work has appeared on Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and The Washington Post. She has also done organizing work around ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in the feminist space in Ghana.
Msia Kibona Clark is an Associate Professor in the African Studies Department at Howard University. Her research explores themes such as hip-hop in Africa, African feminism, and the influence of social movements on cultural production. Her recent book African Women in Digital Spaces explores the use of social media for advocacy by women across Africa & the diaspora. In addition to her academic pursuits, she has curated exhibitions on African culture and photography and is the host of The Hip Hop African Podcast.
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From Tamale to Paris, Hong Kong to Texas, and back to Ouagadougou, this collection of scholarly chapters,
poetry and personal essays theorizes the lives of African women and people of marginalized genders on the continent and the diaspora. The book is an important intervention in conversations on social movements and their convergence with digital media and other praxis tools. The contributors bring a refreshing perspective to discourses on African feminists' agency and how this manifests in their organizing in the physical world and in the digital public sphere. The volume demonstrates the relationships between the struggles of African feminists on the continent and the diaspora charting pathways for African scholars to build coalitions and work toward collective liberation.