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The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women's History

Editor in Chief

Dorothy Hodgson, Brandeis University

Editorial Board

 
 

Articles

African Feminist Thought (Amina Mama)
African Market Women, Market Queens, and Merchant Queens (Gracia Clark)
African Women in Art (Nomusa Makhubu)
African Women in Film, the Moving Image and Screen Culture (Beti Ellerson)
African Women in Music, Theater, and Performance (Adedayo L. Abah)
Aidoo, Ama Ata (Anne Hugon)
al-Nafzaouiya, Zaynab (Hasna Lebbady, Hiam El Hilali)
Baartman, Sara (Clifton Crais)
Ben M’rad, Bchira (Lilia Labidi)
Bibi Titi Mohamed (Chambi Chachage, Jacqueline Mgumia)
Casely-Hayford, Adelaide and Gladys (LaRay Denzer)
de Sousa, Noémia (Hilary Owen)
Ekpo, Margaret (Chinyere Ukpokolo)
el-Durr, Shajarat (Azza El Kholy)
Emecheta, Buchi (Chika Unigwe)
Funmilayo (Anikulapo) Ransome-Kuti: Nigerian Anti-Imperialist, Humanist, and Feminist Activist (Cheryl Johnson-Odim)
Girlhood in Africa (Sarah Bellows-Blakely)
Lakwena, Alice (Heike Behrend)
Mariama Ba (Souad T. Ali)
Mernissi, Fatima (Raja Rhouni)
Miriam Makeba (Omotayo Jolaosho)
Motherhood and Maternalism (Lorelle Semley)
Nana Asma’u (Alaine Hutson)
Nana Yaa Asantewa (Lynda Day)
Nehanda (Diana Jeater, Ruvimbo Rusike)
Ngoyi, Lilian (Iris Berger)
Njinga a Mbande: Power and War in 17th century Angola (Selma Pantoja)
Pereira, Carmen (Ângela Sofia Benoliel Coutinho)
Queen Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Mariana Bracks Fonseca)
Reproductive Health, Fertility Control, and Childbirth (Susanne M. Klausen)
Rodrigues, Deolinda (Margarida Paredes)
Sex Work/Prostitution in Africa (Chi Adanna Mgbako)
Uwilingiyimana, Agathe (Jennie Burnet)
Wangari Muta Maathai (Kabiru Kinyanjui)
Women and Development (Michael Kevane)
Women and Genocide in Africa (Erin Jessee)
Women and Islam (Shobana Shankar)
Women and Migration (Lesley Nicole Braun)
Women and Militarization (Sarah J. Zimmerman)
Women and Pan-Africanism (Hakim Adi)
Women and Post-Independence African Politics (Gretchen Bauer, Akosua Darkwah, Donna Patterson)
Women and Slavery in Africa (Mariana P. Candido)
Women and the History of Religion in Africa (Erin Nourse)
Women and Violence in Africa (Peace A. Medie)
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in East Africa (Miroslava Prazak)
Women in Algeria (Kamal Salhi)
Women in Angola (Mariana P. Candido)
Women in Associations and Organizations (Alice Kang)
Women in Benin (Jessica Catherine Reuther)
Women in Burundi (Marie Saiget)
Women in Cameroon (Harmony O'Rourke)
Women in Cape Verde (Celeste Fortes, Elizabeth Challinor)
Women in Central African History (Gertrude Mianda)
Women in Comoros (Sophie Blanchy)
Women in Congo-Brazzaville (Catherine Porter)
Women in Côte d’Ivoire (Jeanne Maddox Toungara)
Women in Equatorial Guinea (Susana Castillo-Rodriguez, Alba Valenciano Mañé)
Women in Eritrea (Milena Belloni)
Women in Ethiopia (Meron Zeleke Eresso)
Women in Fashion and Textiles (MacKenzie Moon Ryan)
Women in Gabon (Claire H. Griffiths)
Women in Ghana (Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Deborah Atobrah)
Women in Guinea-Bissau (Joanna Davidson)
Women in Law and Justice (Helen Dancer)
Women in Lesotho (Scott Rosenberg)
Women in Liberia (Mary H. Moran)
Women in Madagascar (Faranirina V. Rajaonah)
Women in Malawi (Anika Wilson, Sitinga Kachipande)
Women in Mali (Madina Thiam)
Women in Mauritania (Katherine Ann Wiley)
Women in Mauritius (Ramola Ramtohul)
Women in Modern Egypt (Hoda Elsadda)
Women in Mozambique (Liazzat J. K. Bonate, Jonna Katto)
Women in Namibia (Heike Becker)
Women in Nationalist Movements (Selina Makana)
Women in Nigeria (Chinyere Ukpokolo)
Women in Northern African History (Fadma Ait Mous, Kmar Bendana, Natalya Vince)
Women in Philosophy (African Feminist Philosophy) (Anaïs Angelo)
Women in Postcolonial Africa (Selina Makana)
Women in Post-Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction in Africa (Helen Scanlon)
Women in Precolonial Africa (Christine Saidi)
Women in Rwanda (Sarah E. Watkins, Erin Jessee, Emma Brunton)
Women in São Tomé and Príncipe (Gerhard Seibert)
Women in Senegal (Donna Patterson)
Women in Seychelles (Penda Choppy)
Women in Sierra Leone (Sylvia Macauley)
Women in Somalia (Safia Aidid)
Women in South Africa (Jill E. Kelly)
Women in Southern African History (Heike Becker)
Women in South Sudan (Christopher Tounsel)
Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Amandine Lauro)
Women in the Gambia (Catherine Cymone Fourshey)
Women in Tunisia (Boutheina Ben Hassine)
Women in Uganda (Alicia C. Decker)
Women in Zambia (Iva Peša)
Women’s Emancipation from Slavery in Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Patricia van der Spuy)
Women's Legal Rights (Johanna Bond)
Women's Literature in African History (Anthonia C. Kalu)