Readings

• Metropolitan Museum – “Women Leaders in African History: 17^th-19^thCentury”
• Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum (formerly Mbom) — “Celebrating the Heroic Life of an African Warrior Queen, A Hundred Years Later: Yaa Asantewaa, the Queen Mother of the Asante Empire”, Women’s Studies Review, Spring 2000 (Lehman College, CUNY, 2001), 3-5.
• Mike Dash – “Dahomey’s Women Warriors”, Smithsonian Mag
• Aili Mari Tripp – “Women and Politics in Africa Today”
• Muriel Tillinghast and Patricia McFadden — “Women and National Liberation Movements”
• Stephanie Urdang -“Fighting Two Colonialisms: The Women’s Struggle in Guinea-Bissau”
• Florence Ebila – “A proper woman, in the African tradition’: The construction of gender and nationalism in Wangari Maathai’s autobiography Unbowed”
• Janeth J – “Female Presidents in Africa: A Rather Short History”
• Helene Cooper — Helene Cooper – “How Liberian Women Delivered Africa’s First Female President” NYT Excerpt from Madame President
• Daniel Mumbere – “Ethiopia’s New President Joins Africa’s Powerful Women”, in Africanews, 2018
• Olatundun Ilesanmi* “Women’s Visibility in Decision Making Processes in Africa—Progress, Challenges, and Way Forward”
• Lorena O’Neil – “Graca Machel: A Powerful First Lady”, in OZY
• Wangari Maathai – “Last Public Interview with Carol Odero”, Drum Magazine, July 2011.
• Inter-Parliamentary Union –“African Women’s Representation in National Parliaments”

Videos

• The Legendary Nana Yaa Asantewa & the War of the Golden Stool
• Pray the Devil back to Hell 
• President E. Johnson Sirleaf’s Address to Congress
• Iron Ladies of Liberia
• Faces of Africa — Ellen Sirleaf: Mother of Liberia