143264 VO VO African Women's Writing and Feminism in the 21st Century (2021S)

PRIMARY LITERATURE:
NOVELS:
Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street (2009)
Chinelo Okparanta, Under the Udala Trees (2015)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus (2003), Americanah (2013)
Sefi Atta, Everything Good Will Come (2005), Swallow (2010), A Bit of Difference (2013)
Unoma Azuah, Sky-High Flames (2005)
Lola Shoneyin, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives (2010)
Panashe Chigumadzi, Sweet Medicine (2015)
Ayobami Adebayo, Stay With Me (2017)
Angela Makholwa, Red Ink (2007), Black Widow Society (2013)
Kopano Matlwa, Coconut (2007), Period Pain (2016)
Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater (2018)
Mary Karooro Okurut, The Official Wife (2003), The Switch (2016)
Goretti Kyomuhendo, Whispers from Vera (2002)

SHORT STORIES:
Chika Unigwe, ‘The Secret’ (2005)
Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water (2013)
Monica Arac de Nyeko, ‘Jambula Tree’ (2007)
Panashe Chigumadzi, ‘You Can’t Eat Beauty’ (2019)
Wame Molefhe, ‘Botswana Rain’ from Go Tell the Sun (2011)
Doreen Baingana, ‘Tropical Fish’ (2005), ‘Lost in Los Angeles’ (2003) and ‘One Woman’s Body’ (2005) from Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe (2005)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ‘You in America’ and ‘The Arrangers of Marriage’ in The Thing Around Your Neck (2006)
Sefi Atta, ‘News from Home’ from News from Home (2009)

ESSAYS:
Adichie, Chimamanda. We Should All Be Feminists (2014), Dear Ijeawele (2017)
---. Chimamanda Adichie on Black Hair and the Narrow Definition of Beauty.
https://www.thecut.com/2016/12/chimamanda-adichie-on-black-hair-and-redefining-beauty.html
Ahikire, Josephine. 2014. “African feminism in context: Reflections on the legitimation battles, victories and reversals.” Feminist Africa 19: 7-23.
Panashe Chigumadzi, “Why I’m No Longer Talking to Nigerians About Race” (2019)
Dabiri, Emma. 2014. “Why I am not an Afropolitan.” Africa is a Country website.
Eric- Udorie, June, ed. Can We All Be Feminists? London: Virago, 2018.
Eze, Chielozona. 2015. “We, Afropolitans.” Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28(1), 114-119.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo. Reflecting Rogue: Inside the Mind of a Feminist (2017)
---. Rape: A South African Nightmare (2015)
---. “Ufanele uqavile: Blackwomen, feminisms and postcoloniality in Africa.” Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity 16.50 (2001): 11–22.
Kyomuhendo, Goretti. 2005. “To Be an African Woman Writer: The Joys and Challenges.” In Words and Worlds: African Writing, Literature and Society, ed. by Susan Arndt – Katrin Berndt, 185 – 192. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.
Lewis, Desiree. 2001. “Introduction: African Feminisms.” Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity 16. 50: 4–10.
Matembe, Miria. “I Must Call Myself a Feminist.” Women Writing Africa: The Eastern Region, ed. Amandina Lihamba et al., 437. New York: Feminist Press, 2007.
Salami, Minna. Ms Afropolitan (blog) https://www.msafropolitan.com
Selasi, Taiye. (2005). “Bye Bye Babar.” The LIP Magazine.
Sephodi, Malebo. 2017. Miss Behave. Auckland Park: Blackbird Books.
Tamale, Sylvia. 2006. “African Feminism: How Should We Change?” Development 49.1: 38-41.

THEORY and CRITICISM:
Cock, Jackie. “Women in South Africa’s Transition to Democracy.” In Transitions, Environments, Translations: Feminism in International Politics, ed. Joan W. Scott, Cora Kaplan, Debra Keates, 310–333. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Eze, Chielozona. “Feminism with a Big ‘F’: Ethics and the Rebirth of African Feminism in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street.” Research in African Literatures 45.4 (2014): 89-103.
---. Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature: Feminist Empathy (2016).
Kruger, Marie. Women’s Literature in Kenya and Uganda: The Trouble with Modernity (2011)
McLeod, John. Chapter 7: Diaspora identities in Beginning Postcolonialism (2000)
Murray, Jessica. “Constructions of Gender in Contemporary South African Crime Fiction: A Feminist Literary Analysis of the Novels of Angela Makholwa.” English Studies in Africa 59.2 (2016): 14–26.
Norridge, Zoe. 2013. Perceiving Pain in African Literatur