and community activists. In 2020, the Activate Collective announced it would fund 11 women running for five different parties in the spring local and mayoral elections across five regions of England – London, the Midlands, North East, North West, and Yorkshire and Humber. The list includes eight women of colour, one disabled woman and one care leaver. Seven of the 11 women are from low-income households or identify as working-class. Salami also works as a consultant, in the digital medium, to TVC News, a pan-African news channel. She is represented on the board of the UK Charity For Books' Sake and a UK-based think tank. In 2020, Amistad published a book of Salami's essays, Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone. Awards Salami is the recipient of a number of awards such as the "40 African Change-makers under 40" of Applause Africa. She has been named one of "50 Remarkable Women Connected" by Nokia, one of "Nigeria's 100 most influential women" by of YNaija, and one of the "Top 100 Most Influential Black People on Digital/Social Media" by Eelan Media. She has also received the "Outstanding Achievement in Media" award in 2013, which is an Africa Diaspora Award, and the Women 4 Africa 2013 "Blogger of the Year" award. RED Magazine listed her as "Blogger of the Year" for 2012. References External links "Minna Salami – A Nigerian Trailblazer In Diaspora: Award winning Feminist", Nigerian Diasporan News, 19 March 2017. 1978 births Alumni of SOAS University of London Finnish people of Nigerian descent Living people Lund University alumni Nigerian activists Nigerian women activists Nigerian journalists Nigerian women journalists Finnish bloggers Finnish women bloggers Finnish activists Finnish women activists Finnish journalists Finnish women journalists Nigerian bloggers Nigerian women bloggers