Professor Njoki Wane is a recognized scholar in the areas of Black feminisms in Canada & Africa, African indigenous knowledges, African women and spirituality. One of her most recent publications is Indigenous African Knowledge Production: Food Processing Practices Among Kenyan rural women. She has co-authored an Anti-racist training manual, Equity in Practice: Transformational Training Resource, with Larissa Cairncross, Ruptures: Anti-Colonial & Anti-Racist Feminist Theorizing with Jennifer Jagire & Zahra Murad, A Handbook on African Traditional Healing Approaches & Research Practices with Erica Neeganagwedin. She has also co-edited Spirituality, Education & Society: An Integrated Approach with Energy Manyimo & Eric Ritskes and The Politics of Cultural Knowledge with Arlo Kempf and Marlon Simmons.

Prof. Wane headed the Office of Teaching Support in 2009-2012. She has been nominated TVO Best Lecturer, and is the recipient of the Harry Jerome Professional Excellence Award (2008) and of the African Women Achievement Award (2007). She is also a recipient of the prestigious David E. Hunt Award for Excellence in Graduate Education for 2016, University of Toronto.