Resources

Recommended Readings:

  • Women Writing Africa, 4 volumes.  The Feminist Press at CUNY.
  • Filomena Chioma Steady (ed.).  The Black Woman Cross-Culturally.  Schenkman. 1981
  • Mariama Ba.  So Long a Letter.  Heinemann African Writers Series.  1989.
  • Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí.  The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, University of Minnesota Press. 1997.
  • Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí.  African Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood (ed.), Africa World Press. 2003.
  • Filomena Chioma Steady.  Women and Collective Action in Africa.  Palgrave Macmillan. 2006
  • Wangari Maathai.  Unbowed: A Memoir.  Vintage. 2007
  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.  This Child Will Be Great: A Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President. Harper Collins.  2010.
  • Filomena Chioma Steady.  Women and Leadership in West Africa: Mothering the Nation and Humanizing the State.  Palgrave Macmillan.  2011. 
  • Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. Gender Epistemologies in Africa: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions and Identities (ed.). Palgrave, 2011.
  • Leymah Gbowee.  Mighty Be Our Powers. How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War.  Harper Collins. 2011.
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. We Should All Be Feminists.  Penguin Random House.  2015.
  • Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. What Gender is Motherhood? Changing Yorùbá Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity.  Palgrave. 2015.
  • Helene Cooper.  Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 2017.
  • Other African Women’s Biographies, Memoirs, Novels, Plays, Poems, Oral Traditions, etc
  • Books on Reserve in Leonard Lief Library

Sample Websites on African Women:

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