Ololade Faniyi

Ololade Faniyi is an African feminist writer-practitioner and PhD student in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. Her work engages African feminism and critical technology studies, focusing on digital labour, platform architectures, and feminist reimaginings of technology across the continent.

Faniyi’s project, Being an African Feminist Human in the Digital Age, is a three-day convening that brings together African feminist scholars, practitioners, and technologists working across platforms, labour, policy, and digital rights. The retreat creates space for participants to theorise from practice, exploring how technology produces particular forms of human subjectivity while also enabling alternative, relational reimaginings grounded in African feminist thought. Through collaborative methods, the convening foregrounds embodied knowledge, networks of care, and feminist approaches to technology, with the aim of generating new conceptual frameworks, shared outputs, and ongoing intellectual collaboration.