Feminist Theory Website

Feminism in Nigeria

Nigeria

Individual Feminists on This Website:

Ayesha Imam

Feminists on Other Websites:

Buchi Emecheta:

  1. General
  2. Literature

Bene E. Madunagu

Flora Nwapa

Other Feminists:

Funmilayo Anikulapo-Kuti

Princess Nike Daramy

Margaret Ekpo

Amina Mama

Nina Mba

Gambo Sawaba

Internet Sites

You can reach the Women's Health and Action Research Center in Benin City, Nigeria here.

The Association of Nigerian Scholars for Dialogue: Women's Issues can be accessed here.

UNIFEM's Nigeria page is located here.

You can reach Women in Nigeria here.

Nigeria: Gender and Development can be reached here.

      Introduction

      This page contains General information, Economics, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion in Nigeria.

      Bibliography

      General Information

      Amadiume, Ifi. Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. 1987.

      Azikiwe, Uche. Women in Nigeria: An Annotated Bibliography. 1996.

      Dhizea, Dora Obi and Juliet Njoku. Nigerian Women and the Challenges of Our Time. Malthouse Press, 1991. [You can order this book here.]

      Imam, Ayesha, ed. Gender Revisited -- Special Issue of Africa Development, Vol. XX No. 4 (Guest Editor), 1995.

      Imam, Ayesha. Women in Nigeria Today. London: Zed Books, 1985 (Convenor of WIN Editorial Committee)

      Imam, Ayesha and Tade Aina, ed. Gender Revisited -- Second Special Issue of Africa Development, Vol XXII No. 1 , 1997.

      Imam, Ayesha, Mounira Chelli and Soha Abdel Kader, ed. Women and the Mass Media in Africa AAWORD Occasional Paper Series No.6. Dakar: AAWORD, 1992.

      Imam, Ayesha, Amina Mama and Fatou Sow, ed. Engendering African Social Sciences.Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA, 1997. (also forthcoming in French as Engen(d)rer les science sociales africaines) [You can order this book here.]

      Imam, Ayesha, R. Pittin and H. Omole, ed. Women and the Family in Nigeria. Dakar: CODESRIA, 1985. [You can order this book here.]

      Korieh, Chima Jacob. "Widowhood Among the Igbo of Eastern Nigeria." (dissertation). [You can read this text here.]

      Mama, Amina. Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity. Routledge, 1995.

      Nwankwu, Maureen N. The Sermon We Saw: Lady Reginal Obiageli Nwankwu. Fouth Dimension Publ., 1992. [You can order this book here.]

      Ogundipe-Leslie, Molara. Re-Creating Ourselves: African Women and Critical Transformations. 1994.

      Uchendu, Patrick K. Education and the Changing Economic Role of Nigerian Women. Fourth Dimension Pub., 1995. [You can order this book here.]

      Economics

      Akinware, Margaret. "Child Care and Women's Work in Rural Nigeria." 1988. [You can read this article here.]

      History

      Mama, Amina. "Sheroes and Villians: Conceptualizing Colonial and Contemporary Violence Against Women in Africa," in Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures. Ed. M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra T. Mohanty. (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 46-62.

      Mama, Amina. Women's Studies and Studies of Women in Africa During the 1990s. CODESRIA, 1996. [You can order this book here.]

      Mba, Nina Emma. Nigerian Women Mobilized: Women's Political Activity in Southern Nigeria, 1900-1965. Univ. of California Regents, 1982.

      Ogbomo, Onaiwu W. When Men and Women Mattered: A History of Gender Relations Among the Owan of Nigeria. Univ. of Rochester Press, 1997.

      Osinulu, Clara and Nina Mba, ed. Nigerian Women in Politics: 1986-1993. Malthouse Press, 1996. [ You can order this book here.]

      Literature

      Davies, Carole Boyce and Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, ed. Moving Beyond Boundaries: International Dimensions of Black Women's Writing. New York Univ. Press, 1995.

      Egejuru, Phanuel. The Seed Yams Have Been Eaten. Heinemann Ed. Books, 1993. [You can order this book here.]

      Fishburn, Katherine. Reading Buchi Emecheta: Cross-Cultural Conversations. Greenwood Press, 1995.

      Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo and Catharine R. Stimpson. Africa Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerial Novel by Women. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996.

      Onwueme, Tess O. Go Tell It to Women: An Epic Drama for Women. African Heritage Press, 1992.

      Otokunefor, H.C. and O.C. Nwodo, ed. Nigerian Female Writers; A Critical Perspective. Malthouse Press, 1990. [You can order this book here.]

      Umeh, Marie, ed. Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta. Africa World Press, 1996.

      Umeh, Marie, ed. Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa. Red Sea Press, 1998.

      Williams, Olatoun. The Triumvirate. Malthouse Press, 1992. [You can order this book here.]

      Politics

      Anifowose, Remi. Violence and Politics in Nigeria: The Tiv and Yoruba Experience. 1982.

      Babatunde, Emmanuel. Women's Rites Versus Women's Rights: A Study of Circumcision Among the Ketu Yoruba of South Western Nigeria. Red Sea Press, 1998.

      Daramy, Nike. Legacy: Attribtues of Female Leadership in Nigeria. 1993.

      Imam, Ayesha. "The Dynamics of WINning: An Analysis of Women in Nigeria (WIN)," in Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures. Ed. M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra T. Mohanty. (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 280-307.

      Imam, Ayesha. "Politics, Islam, and Women in Kano, Northern Nigeria," in Identity Politics and Women: Cultural Reassertions and Feminisms in International Perspective. Ed. Valentine M. Moghadam. 1994.

      Imam, Ayesha. The WIN Document: The Conditions of Women in Nigeria, and Policy Recommendations to 2,000 AD. Zaria: WIN, 1985 (Convenor of Women in Nigeria Editorial Committee)

      Imam, Ayesha, G. O. I. Abalu and Y. Abdullahi, ed. Green Revolution in Nigeria? Zaria: IAR/ABU, 1984

      Johnson-Odim, Cheryl and Nina Emma Mba. For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria. Univ. of Illinois Press, 1997.

      Mikell, Gwendolyn. "African Feminism: Toward a New Politics of Representation." Feminist Studies 21 (Summer 1995): 416.

      Uchendu, Patrick K. The Role of Nigerian Women in Politics: Past and Present. Fourth Dimension Publ., 1993. [You can order this book here.]

      Religion

      Callaway, Barbara J. Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria. 1987.

      Imam, Ayesha. "Politics, Islam, and Women in Kano, Northern Nigeria," in Identity Politics and Women: Cultural Reassertions and Feminisms in International Perspective. Ed. Valentine M. Moghadam. 1994.

      Filmography

      "Mammy Water: In Search of the Water Spirits of Nigeria." 1991. [You can read about this film here.]

      "Monday's Girls." Dir. by Ngozi Onwurah, 1993. [You can read about this film here.]

      "The Preferred Sex ... The Desired Number." 1995. [You can read about this film here.]

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