African FeminismBooks

A widow's letter contests the public story of her marriage, while friendship reveals unequal possibilities for staying, leaving and speaking.

Through first-person stories, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah explores how desire, religion, queer life, trauma, and community shape sexual freedom across African and diasporic contexts.

Three women’s voices expose patience as an unequal marital duty in Djaïli Amadou Amal’s novel, rather than an innocent virtue.

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.

Mukasonga remembers her mother's survival work, storytelling and an unfulfilled farewell, asking how care can be honored without making sacrifice women's duty.

Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí questions how ‘woman’ became a universal category, tracing Western gender theory through Yoruba history, language, and colonial knowledge-making.

A 1997 anthology maps law, labor, care, and political organizing across ten African country cases - and opens a debate about how African feminisms are defined.

Amina Mama traces how psychology helped construct the racialised ‘Other’, then develops a Black feminist account of subjectivity through the histories, conversations and relationships of Black women in Britain.