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  • By: Minna Salami
  • Narrator: Robin Miles
  • Category: Essays, Literary Collections
  • Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: March 31, 2020
  • Language: English
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Sensuous Knowledge Audiobook Summary

The creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan applies an Africa-centered feminist sensibility to issues of racism and sexism, challenging our illusions about oppression and liberation and daring women to embrace their power.

Sensuous Knowledge is a collection of thought provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves, our history, and our world.

What does it mean to be oppressed?
What does it mean to be liberated?
Why do women choose to follow authority even when they can be autonomous?
What is the cost of compromising one’s true self?
What narratives particularly subjugate women and people of African heritage?
What kind of narrative can heal and empower?

As she considers these questions, Salami offers fresh insights on key cultural issues that impact women’s lives, including power, beauty, and knowledge. She also examines larger subjects, such as Afrofuturism, radical Black feminism, and gender politics, all with a historical outlook that is also future oriented. Combining a storyteller’s narrative playfulness and a social critic’s intellectual rigor, Salami draws upon a range of traditions and ideologies, feminist theory, popular culture–including insights from Ms. Lauryn Hill, Beyonce, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and others–science, philosophy, African myths and origin stories, and her own bold personal narrative to establish a language for change and self-liberation.

Sensuous Knowledge inspires reflection and challenge us to formulate or own views. Using ancestral knowledge to steer us toward freedom, Salami reveals the ways that women have protested over the years in large and small ways–models that inspire and empower us to define our own sense of womanhood today.

In this riveting meditation, Salami ask women to break free of the prison made by ingrained male centric biases, and build a house themselves–a home that can nurture us all.

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Sensuous Knowledge Audiobook Narrator

Robin Miles is the narrator of Sensuous Knowledge audiobook that was written by Minna Salami

Minna Salami is Nigerian, Finnish, and Swedish author, blogger, and social critic, and international keynote speaker. She is the founder of the multiple award-winning blog, MsAfropolitan, which connects feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an Africa-centered perspective. Listed by Elle Magazine as “one of twelve women changing the world” alongside Angelina Jolie and Michelle Obama, Minna has presented talks on feminism, liberation, decolonization, sexuality, African Studies, and popular culture to audiences at the European Parliament, the Oxford Union, Yale University, TEDx, The Singularity University at NASA, and UN Women. She is a contributor to The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and the Royal Society of the Arts, and a columnist for the Guardian Nigeria. She lives in London. 

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Narrator Robin Miles
Length 7 hours 15 minutes
Author Minna Salami
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Publisher HarperAudio
Release date March 31, 2020
ISBN 9780062990136

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The publisher of the Sensuous Knowledge is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Essays, Literary Collections

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Goodreads Reviews

Laura

January 21, 2021

Hienointa, mitä olen lukenut vuosiin. Tarkempi analyysi kaipaa tarkempaa pureskelua, pohdintaa ja ehkä myös aikaa, sillä niin montaa eri asiaa tämä kirja minussa ja tavassani hahmottaa maailmaa liikutti. Salami sanoitti järisyttävän määrän paitsi sellaista, jota olen ehkä kaukaisesti ajatellut ja ihmetellyt, mutta erityisesti sellaista, jota en kaiken keskellä ole osannut edes hahmottaa (vaikka nyt tuntuu, että olisi pitänyt). Viisas, lempeä, aistivoimainen, täydellinen esimerkki oman sanomansa voimasta.

Sara

March 27, 2021

Tuoreita, lempeitä ajatuksia mustasta feminismistä. Aistien viisaus tarjoaa oivalluksia ja antaa ajattelemisen aihetta. Merkkasin monta kohtaa, joihin haluan palata.Jotkin ajatukset olivat omaan makuun ehkä liian henkisiä, womynistisiä tai vielä keskeneräisiä, vähän raakoja, mikä toki on enemmän kuin ok. Europatriarkaalista höpöhöpöä sellainen, että aina pitäisi olla valmista, varsinkin näin uraauurtavassa ajattelussa.Rakastaja-sanan käyttö tökki, mutta tässä kohdin "vika" on enemmän minussa kuin kirjailijassa tai suomentajassa. Sen sijaan koko teoksen läpi olisi voinut puhua sukuelimistä. Jostain syystä muoto oli välillä sukuelin ja välillä vanhentunut sukupuolielin, jonka toivoisi jo väistyvän käytöstä, varsinkin tällaisissa yhteyksissä.

Marko

February 14, 2021

Miten hieno kirja! Todellista aivohierontaa, uusia näkökulmia, tietoa, taidetta, myyttejä, valtaa, kauneutta. Paljon ajatuksia, vähän itsestäänselvyyksiä. Lämmin suositus!

Chloë

May 24, 2020

This book is a rich approach to feminism and also to so much more. Minna brings together different ways of knowing: from different perspectives such as race, and also different areas such as art, stories, science, literature... I really enjoyed this holistic approach and it was a delight to read.

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May 09, 2021

Absolutely a must read! What a fantastic book - such a wholistic approach to the question of racial and gendered justice.

Iina

March 26, 2021

Olipas tämä kiinnostava! Todella paljon mutusteltavaa ajatuksille, joitain uusia ideoita tai näkökulmia ja monia kirjailijoita, joita pitää lukea lisää. Oli tässä pari ei-niin vakuuttavaa juttua (esim. en usko mihinkään feminiiniseen viisauteen, joka kaikilla naisilla olisi), mutta ne jäävät pitkälti sivumaininnoiksi eivätkä häirinneet liikaa. Suosittelen!

Tuomas

December 29, 2020

Aistien välittämän ja ruumiillisen hyväksyminen osaksi kaikkea ajattelua ja tiedon muodostamista on nigerialais-suomalaisen Minna Salamin esseekokoelman ytimessä. Kyse on ikiaikaisista filosofisista kysymyksistä, joita Salami käsittelee mustan feminismin valossa ammentaen mm. jorubaperinteestä. On aika oppia maailmasta laajemmin ja siirtyä kauemmas europatriarkaalisesta todellisuuskäsityksestä. Aistien viisaus toimii myös teoksena, joka avaa perusteellisesti monia feministisiä käsitteitä: identiteetti, dekolonisaatio, sisaruus, valta. Esseeteokseksi tämän tekee minusta avoin omakohtaisuus ja keskustelu muiden ajattelijoiden ja perinnetiedon kanssa. Tieto ja kauneus eivät ole jotain omistettavaa, vaan aktiivista toimintaa, elämäniloisen ihmisen olemuksessa tuntuvia, näkyviä ja kuuluvia asioita. Huomaan jo tätä kirjoittaessanikin, että Salamin teksti kutsuu hahmottelemaan asioita moniaistillisemmin, purkamaan hallintaan perustuvaa kielenkäyttöä. Hän pitää tärkeänä, että feministisistä teemoista keskustellaan myös tavalla joka on moninaisen yleisön ymmärrettävissä, ja Aistien viisaus onnistuu varsin hyvin tässä pyrkimyksessä; teksti vaikuttaa usein suoralta, mutta sen monikerroksisuus tulee esiin kun lukee katkelmia useamman kerran. Pidän siitä, miten runous ja musiikki nostetaan kirjassa arvoonsa aistivoimaisen kokemuksen välittäjinä. Tämäkin kuuluu kirjoihin, joiden äärellä oma positio on ensisijaisesti kuunteleva. ”Hengen valaminen tietoon on sitä, että näkee taiteet, tanssin, sanonnat, rituaaliset tekstit, eeppiset runot, musiikkityylit, luomismyytit, elämäntarinat, naisten perinteet ja utopiat – kaiken, minkä voi sanoa liittyvän henkeen – oivalluksen lähteinä.” (s. 21)”Ilolla tarkoitan sisäistä ominaisuutta, joka on itsessään luonteeltaan poliittinen. – – Tarkoitan omana itsenä olemista, vaikka se rikkoisi hyväksyttyjä käsityksiä siitä, mitä pitää olla. Tarkoitan olemisen helppoutta ja keveyttä. Pohjimmiltaan tarkoitan itsen vapauttamista identiteetin ennalta määritellyistä raameista.” (s. 105)

Ville

November 25, 2021

Utterly and totally mind-blown. This was an insanely insightful piece of information that turned my world view right around. And I thought I knew something. I just made a list of books that have broadened my world view (books written by women, by POC, books about racism, masculinity and feminism etc. – everything but books based on the patriarchy) and it was around a hundred books long. Thought it was a good start and gave me a view of the world from another view, but-a... I'm still entry-level and maybe always will be. Extremely humbling. Made me question a million things from science to information to colors to beauty to mental health to the history of philosophy and ancient stories and maybe also the history of the world.All in a very tight, well-flowing package.Couldn't stop once I began.This also somehow managed to keep a personal touch with a lot of feeling. Sensuality, maybe even, something we all need to dip our brains into.Read this.

Sofia

December 01, 2021

4,5

Emily

February 23, 2023

Shoutout Minna Salami for saving my dissertation

Pihlis

December 30, 2020

Hieno, orgaanisesti soljuva, vilpitön ja historiallisesti maadoittava kirja mustan feminismin aistivoimaisesta viisaudesta.

Esther | lifebyesther

July 16, 2020

Sensuous Knowledge is an essay collection that centers the African woman in discussions on feminism, knowledge, race, class, beauty and power. It is extremely well-written and engaging. For example, she uses rivers to talk about power and briefly described the different personalities of various rivers (like the Yangtze and the Thames). I enjoyed those descriptions because I hadn't ever thought of rivers like people before and they helped me understand her point about power better. I also really connected with what she said about decolonizing your own mind, and I was inspired when she calls men out for desiring every type of beauty other than a woman who is completely herself. I'd like to add that this was a really difficult book for me because it is so intellectually rigorous. It has been a long time since I've read anything like this, and reading it via audiobook didn't help me. Please read this either as a print book or an ebook, and take your time! Another reason why it was so difficult for me was that the ideas presented weren't ones I was used to thinking about. For example, misogynoir is something that I had just learned about, which is a sign of my privilege and ignorance. Again, I regret listening to this via audiobook instead of a print or ebook that would allow me to take notes and progress slowly.

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