Regimes of power are sustained by regimes of knowledge. Drawing on the example of the journal Feminist Africa we will discuss the challenges of articulating and strengthening independent knowledge for African contexts.
Amina Mama is an author, activist and one of the world's leading scholars in the field of African feminisms - the theory and practice of African feminisms.
The Angela Davis Guest Professorship for International Gender and Diversity Studies serves to promote international and interdisciplinary cooperation in the field of gender and diversity.
Prof Angela Davis is regarded as a pioneer in the global race-class-gender debate and as a pioneer of critical discourse within gender and diversity studies. Her perspective on overlapping forms of inequality based on gender, ethnicity and class has become part of social science theorising as triple oppression - or currently as the intersectionality approach.
Angela Davis was the first holder of the visiting professorship at the Cornelia Goethe Centre in 2013. Following its successful launch, the visiting professorship is filled at regular intervals by an internationally renowned researcher.