I am a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA where I teach in the Departments of English, Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies. However, I consider myself as living in Ghana! I write poetry and specialise in teaching the literature and culture of the Black world. I am on a mission to make clear to a new generation, through an understanding of Black expressive cultures from food to music and the spoken word, that there are ties that bind us as a people, through the centuries and across continents. I am also co-director of “Women Writing Africa” a cultural restoration and publishing project, which hopes to restore African Women’s voices to the public sphere. We have spent nearly two decades publishing four volumes documenting the history of self-conscious literary expression, ritual and quotidian, sacred and profane, written, spoken or sung by African women throughout the continent. Our hope is to allow new readings of Africa’s history by shedding light on the things that women do and say, for in doing this, we hope to find where the fault lines of memory lie and so change our assumptions of how knowledge has been shaped. The central challenge for feminists is one of vigilance, and not just in Africa. Whatever position we occupy, we need to keep actively aware of the structures of power that shape our lives, and learn to work with them and through them without becoming co-opted by them. Feminism is an egalitarian praxis, and it can be hard to sustain especially in moments of stress and danger when being authoritarian, or succumbing to authoritarianism, seems easier and certainly safer. This is true at every level from family relations to faculty meetings or civil society boardrooms and cabinet meetings. As a teacher I have tried to change the way I teach to make it less authoritarian, re-designed the assignments I give to make them open to collaboration and/or different kinds of inventiveness and skills, and re-assessed the ways I evaluate to put value in the processes rather than the end result. I call myself a feminist because feminist thought and praxis have come to define my sense of agency. I am proud to have been a founding board member of the African Women’s Development Fund and am motivated to keep on this path by being with people who want to change the world for the better!