The Twelve Best Books by African Women is a collection of critical essays on eleven works of fiction and one play, an important but belated affirmation of women

The moving story of a group of Nigerian women which follows their lives from their schooldays together through the trials and tribulations of their adult lives.

A Commonwealth Prize–winning novel of “intense power . . . examining the role of women in modern African society” by the acclaimed Ghanaian author (Publis

"Women have played a far more central role in Africa than the history books often suggest. Here are lively portraits of twelve key figures. Their periods of inf