140265 VO Contemporary African Women's Writing and African Feminism (2017S)

Primary works
NOVELS
Calixthe Beyala, Your Name Shall be Tanga (Tu t'appelleras Tanga, 1988)
Werewere Liking, It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral (Elle sera de jaspe et de corail, 1983)
Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street (2009)
Jabulile Bongiwe Ngwenya, I Ain't Yo Bitch (2009)
Sefi Atta, Everything Good Will Come (2008)
Yvonne Vera, Butterfly Burning (1998) and Under the Tongue (1996)
Shailja Patel, Migritude (2010)
Chinelo Okparanta, Under the Udala Trees (2015)

SHORT STORIES AND NOVELLAS
Chinelo Okparanta, ‘America’, from Happiness, Like Water (2013)

Monica Arac de Nyeko, ‘Jambula Tree’ (2007)
Wame Molefhe, ‘Botswana Rain’ from Go Tell the Sun (2011)
Doreen Baingana, ‘Tropical Fish’ (2005) and ‘One Woman’s Body’ (2005)
Taiye Selasi, ‘The Sex Lives of African Girls’ (2011)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ‘You in America’ and ‘The Arrangers of Marriage’ in The Thing Around Your Neck (2006)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017)

MEMOIR AND TESTIMONY
Beyond the Dance, ed. by Violet Barungi and Hilda Twongyeirwe (2009)
Tears of Hope: A Collection of Short Stories by Ugandan Rural Women. Ed. Ayeta Anne Wnagusa and Violet Barungi (2003).
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel (2006)
Waris Dirie, Desert Flower (1998)
Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde, Black Bull, Ancestors and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma (2009)

ESSAYS, THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY
Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, ‘Stiwanism: Feminism in an African Context’ (1994), in African Literature: An anthology of criticism and theory; Ed. By Tejumola Olaniyan and Ato Quayson (2007)
Obioma Nnaemeka, ‘Nego-Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa’s Way’, Signs, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Winter 2004)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nomad (2010)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ (2012) - youtube

Secondary works
Susan Arndt, The Dynamics of African Feminism (2002)
Susan Andrade, The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminism, 1958-1988 (2011)
Oyeronke Oyewumi, African Women and Feminism : reflecting on the politics of sisterhood (2003)
Margaret Daymond, ed., South African Feminisms: Writing, Theory and Criticisms, 1990-1994 (1996)
Kirsten Holst Petersen and Anna Rutherford, A Double Colonization: Colonial and Post-Colonial Women's Writing (1986)
Susheila Nasta, Motherlands: Black Women's Writing from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia (1992)
Florence Stratton, Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender (1994)
Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference (1997)
Mary Modupe Kolawole, Womanism and African Consciousness (1997)
Gwendolyn Mikell, Introduction, African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa, ed. G. Mikell (1997), pp. 1-50.
Stephanie Newell, Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture, and Literature in West Africa (1997)
Ernest Emenyonu and Simon Gikandi, eds., New Women's Writing in African Literature (African Literature Today no. 24, 2004)
Elleke Boehmer, Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (2005)
Chielozona Eze, Postcolonial Imagination and Moral Representations in African Literature and Culture (2011)
Elisabeth Bekers, Rising Anthills: African and African American Writing on Female Genital Excision, 1960–2000 (U of Wisconsin Press, 2010)