Re-creating Ourselves: African Women & Critical TransformationsThis book falls into two parts: the first part, theory, comprising theoretical essays on literature, women and society, leads into the second part, practice, which presents Ogundipe-Leslie's work as a social activist. Both parts are linked by her poetry. |
Contents
African Women Culture and Another Development | 21 |
The Female Writer and her Commitment | 57 |
Women in Nigeria | 69 |
The Bilingual to Quintulingual Poet in Africa | 111 |
Women in Nigeria | 125 |
The Rights and Humanity of the Nigerian Woman | 131 |
African Marxists Women | 145 |
Mobilizing the Mobilizers | 153 |
Speech at a Kings Palace | 165 |
Mandela Decolonization and the Rest of Us | 201 |
Feminism in an African Context | 207 |
Afterword | 251 |
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