Oyeronke Oyewumi is professor emerita of Sociology at Stony Brook University. She completed her bachelor's degree in political science at the University of Ibadan and completed her PhD  in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. Her areas of interest include postcolonial theory, feminist theory and gender epistemologies arising from African contexts. Her work focuses on developing African theories of power, gender and studying the implications of Western theories and concepts on non-western societies. Her noteworthy publications include: The invention of women: Making an African sense of Western gender discourses (1997); and What gender is motherhood? Changing Yoruba ideals of power, procreation, and identity in the age of modernity (2015). She has edited African women and Feminism: Reflecting on the politics of sisterhood (2003); Gender epistemologies in Africa: Gendering traditions, spaces, social institutions, and identities (2011); and Naming Africans: On the epistemic value of names co-edited with Hewan Girma (2023).