Feminism in 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:

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

[Note: Some of this information was contributed by Melodi Collier.]

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.]