This is an ongoing list of books, journal articles, blog posts, basically everything I read on the topic African women and history. There is no particular order, look back for updates!
Books
- Lorelle D. Semley (2010), Mother is Gold, Father is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town
- Achebe, Nwando (2011), The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe
- Christine Oppong ed (1983), Female and Male in West Africa
- Massaquoi Fatima (2013), The Autobiography of an African Princess
- Edna Bay (1998), Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey
- Amadiume Ifi (1987), Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society
- Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónké (1997). The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
- Jean Boyd & Beverly Mack (2013), Educating Muslim Women: The West African Legacy of Nana Asma’u, 1793-1864
- Jean Boyd (1999), The Caliph’s Sister: Nana Asma’u, 1793-1865, Teacher, Poet and Islamic Leader
PDFs
- Bergstrom Kari, “Legacies of Colonialism and Islam for Hausa Women: An Historical Analysis, 1804 – 1960”, Women and International Development Working Paper #27, 6 October 2002
- Sinikangas Maarit, “Yan Daudu: A Study of Transgendering Men in Hausaland West Africa”
- Anderson Ulrika, “Working with Spirits among Muslim Hausa in Nigeria A Study of Bori in Jos”
Nwoko - Kenneth Chukwuemeka, “Female Husbands in Igbo Land: Southeast Nigeria”
Blog posts/articles
Shade of Africa in India’s Social Fabric
Academic journals
- Akyeampong Emmanuel, “Sexuality and Prostitution among the Akan of the Gold Coast c. 1650-1950”, Past & Present, No. 156 (Aug., 1997), pp. 144-173
- E. Frances White, “Creole Women Traders in the Nineteenth Century”, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4 (1981), pp. 626-642
- Heidi Gengenbach, “Boundaries of Beauty: Tattooed Secrets of Women’s History in Magude District, Southern Mozambique”, Journal of Women’s History, Volume 14, Number 4, Winter 2003, pp. 106-141
- Nwando Achebe, “Igo Mma Ogo: The Adoro Goddess, Her Wives, and Challengers–Influences on the Reconstruction of Alor-Uno, Northern Igboland, 1890-1994”, Journal of Women’s History, Volume 14, Number 4, Winter 2003, pp. 83-105
- Laurence D. Schiller, “The Royal Women of Buganda”, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 23, No. 3 (1990), pp. 455-473
- Nehemia Levtzion, “Was Royal Succession in Ancient Ghana Matrilineal?”, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1972), pp. 91-93
- A. P. Caplan, “Boys’ Circumcision and Girls’ Puberty Rites among the Swahili of Mafia Island, Tanzania”, Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 46, No. 1 (1976), pp. 21-33
- Paul E. Lovejoy, “Concubinage and the Status of Women Slaves in Early Colonial Northern Nigeria”, The Journal of African History, Vol. 29, No. 2 (1988), pp. 245-266
- Robert M. Baum, “Crimes of the Dream World: French Trials of Diola Witches in Colonial Senegal”, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2004), pp. 201-228
- Andrew Apter, “The Embodiment of Paradox: Yoruba Kingship and Female Power”, Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 6, No. 2 (May, 1991), pp. 212-229
- Emmanuel Babatunde, “Ketu Myths and the Status of Women: A Structural Interpretation”
- John K. Thornton, “Elite women in the Kingdom of Kongo: Historical Perspectives on Women’s Political Power”, The Journal of African History, Volume 47, Issue 03, November 2006, pp 437-460
- Paul E. Lovejoy (1990), “Concubinage in the Sokoto caliphate (1804–1903), Slavery & Abolition”, 11:2, 159-189
- Vereecke Catherine (1994), “The Slave Experience in Adamawa : Past and Present Perspectives from Yola (Nigeria)”, Cahiers d’études africaines, vol. 34, n°133-135, 1994. L’archipel peul. pp. 23-53
Podcasts
A Female King: Gender and Oral History in Eastern Nigeria