African Women Studies

Filomena Steady-An Investigative Framework for Gender Research in Africa - 2005

by Deborah Gabriel

The majority of African countries are in crisis. Economic domination through corporate globalization is themore The majority of African countries are in crisis. Economic domination through corporate globalization is the
primary global strategy for economic growth. The resulting development paradigm is re-colonization through the
reproduction of hegemonic tendencies that facilitate the movement of trans-national capital. Protracted recession, the
debt burden, Structural Adjustment Programmes, externally-controlled privatization and an emphasis on exports are
creating a cultural crisis of major proportions.

The marginalization of Africa through corporate globalization has led to widespread poverty, the destruction of many African economies, social dislocation and civil strife. This is compounded by the erosion of the life- supporting capacities of many African ecosystems. Authoritarian regimes and gender-based discrimination complete the picture.

Fluid attachment: reframing peacebuilding through Ahmadou Kourouma's Allah n'est pas obligé

by Christina Lux

WOMEN IN ORAL LITERATURE

by Ejakaitpapa Etyang

Moral De-values

by Mohamed Eno

A poem, excerpt from my forthcoming poetry volume Corpses on the Menu

The verse depicts how women are victims of senseless acts of violence and social immorality in war-torn nations. The... more The verse depicts how women are victims of senseless acts of violence and social immorality in war-torn nations. The poem is dedicated to all women in the world who have undergone such a mayhem; and those who advocate for the rights and well-being of women.

“Ri yo avan yo riw”: Rebellion and Compliance in African-Diasporic idea of Womanhood.

by Nathalie Montlouis

The aim of the event is to identify and understand the traumatic post memories that affect the soncept of womanhood... more The aim of the event is to identify and understand the traumatic post memories that affect the soncept of womanhood and femininity in African-diasporic milieu.
All will be invited to share discuss and analyse the "respectful" and "defiant"  Image of Black Women.
The event may be coupled with the Image of Black Women festival. TBC.

African Women: Reflections on their social, political and economic power

by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome

Can You Really See through a Squint? Theoretical Underpinnings in Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy

by Cheryl Sterling

African Women and Power: Labor, Gender and Feminism In the Age of Globalization

by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome

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Globalization, feminism, and power: an African perspective

by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome

Published by John Archers for Programme on Ethnic and Federal Studies (PEFS), University of Ibadan, 2003

AFRICAN WOMEN AND FEMALE CIRCUMCISION-SOME REFLECTIONS

by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome

Look through the blog and you'll find the paper.

AFRICAN WOMEN: REFLECTIONS ON THE PERILS OF UNWARRANTED COSMOPOLITANISM

by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome

Globalization, feminism & power an african perspective

by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome

LISTENING TO AFRICA, MISUNDERSTANDING AND MISINTERPRETING AFRICA: REFORMIST WESTERN FEMINIST EVANGELISM ON AFRICAN …

by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome

Education: Colonial and Missionary

by Abdulai Iddrisu

Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures: Family, Body and Health (Koninklijike Brill, 2006)

“Writing about Women: Approaches to a Gendered Perspective in African History”

by Kathleen Sheldon

Published in Writing African History, ed. John Edward Philips, 465-489 (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2005).

Dimensions of African Migration to the United States: Labor, Brain Drain, Identity Formation and Naturalization

by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome

Rocking the Boat without falling out

by Faith Wambura Ngunjiri

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This very short paper has no reference list as it was cut off by the editors...the article is an extension of... more This very short paper has no reference list as it was cut off by the editors...the article is an extension of Meyerson's work on tempered radicalism with illustrations from African women leaders. Tempered radicalism is an approach to change leadership, even as it is also a form of resistance for people who find themselves not fitting into organizations due to their social identities or different value systems.

Rural Entrepreneurship for Women: A Case for Wealth Creation by Africa’s Rural Poor amidst Global Financial and Economic Crises

by Dr K M Baharul Islam

Plenary Presentation made at the African Economic Conference 2009 on
"Fostering Development in an Era of Financial and Economic Crises",
11 – 13 November 2009 • United Nations Conference Centre • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

This paper underlines the strategic challenges and opportunities
from a gender focus to analyze the prospects of... more This paper underlines the strategic challenges and opportunities
from a gender focus to analyze the prospects of rural small and medium entrepreneurship for women through an analytical research on women’s IT-based commercial enterprises and present a matrix of issues before the women entrepreneurs.
Women Entrepreneurs have grown in large number across the globe over the last decade and increasingly the entrepreneurial potentials of women have changed the rural economies in many parts of the world. Besides the star cases like “Grameen Telephone Ladies” in Bangladesh spearheaded by Nobel
Laureate Muhammad Yunus, many other isolated cases of successful women businesses abound in recent years.


With the increasing number of rural women joining the entrepreneurial bandwagon their conventional role in the society has also been changing with the growing economic leverage they are mastering now. The quintessential home-maker with her born managerial skill, knowledge and adaptability in the difficult social milieu made them eager to take up even otherwise apparently ‘non-viable’ business ventures and often turned them into success
stories. ‘Women Entrepreneur’, in a larger sense, therefore is a person who accepts challenging role to meet her personal needs and become economically self-sufficient. 

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by Camila A. M. Sampaio

A Review of African-American Seminal Research

by Onyx Taylor

This paper will be presented during the scholar-to-scholar session of the National Communication Association's 97th Annual Convention in New Orleans November 17-20.

This review of African-American seminal research seeks common themes among research and how the themes are related to... more This review of African-American seminal research seeks common themes among research and how the themes are related to media representation of African-American communication. Common themes among research are identified and grouped into three different groups based on how the research relates to African-American self-identification, self-actualization and internalization. The groups are named metaphorically named as to represent different aspects of African-American hair politics: good hair, nappy hair and natural hair. These three groups represent Higgins (1987) concepts of self; actual self, ideal self and ought self.