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African Women in the Development Process. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-28118-1. Newell, Stephanie (1997). Writing African women: gender, popular culture, and literature in West Africa. Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-85649-449-6. Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi (1997). Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference. Indiana University ...
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present is a compilation of orature and literature by more than 200 women from Africa and the African diaspora, edited and introduced by Margaret Busby, [2] who compared the process of assembling the volume to "trying to catch a flowing river in a calabash".
Women Healing the Earth: Third World Women on Feminism, Ecology and Religion. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books. pp. 172–83. ISBN 9781570750571. Hinga, Teresia Mbari (2005). "African Notions of Afterlife". Macmillan Encyclopedia of Religion. Hinga, Teresia M. (2016). "Jesus Christ and the Liberation of Women in Africa". In Elizabeth A. Johnson ...
This book deals with the critically urgent need for women to create "empowered" spaces for themselves, meaning, women need to create a space where they are not considered the "weaker sex". Scarlet Song is about a marriage between a European woman and an African man. Mireille, whose father is a French diplomat, marries Ousmane, son of a poor ...
A Congolese woman asserts women's rights with the message 'The mother is as important as the father' printed on her pagne, 2015.. The culture, evolution, and history of women who were born in, live in, and are from the continent of Africa reflect the evolution and history of the African continent itself.
She is the subject of several studies, including Jean Boyd's The Caliph's Sister: Nana Asma'u 1793–1865: Teacher, Poet and Islamic Leader (1989), described as an "important book" that "provides a good read for the nonspecialist willing to discard common stereotypes about women in Africa", [17] and One Woman's Jihad: Nana Asma'u, Scholar and ...
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Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993), was a Nigerian author who has been called the mother of modern African Literature. [1] She was the forerunner to a generation of African women writers, and the first African woman novelist to be published in the English language in Britain.