African FeminismBooks

Through intimate testimony from African and diasporic women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah replaces narratives of sexual danger and victimhood with a plural archive of desire, pleasure, freedom, and healing.

Ifi Amadiume’s study of Nnobi society separates social roles such as daughter and husband from anatomical sex, while tracing how colonial rule narrowed women’s political and economic authority.

Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí argues that Western scholarship projected a body-centered gender hierarchy onto Yoruba society, forcing feminist analysis to confront the colonial history of its own categories.

This landmark anthology grounds African feminist politics in struggles over land, work, food, health, citizenship, and state power across ten national contexts.

Amina Mama exposes psychology’s role in producing racist images and develops a historically grounded account of how Black women create subjectivity against racial and gender domination.