WAAD-volume4

Chimalum Nwankwo Liteature, Politics, and Dilemma of Respresentation	5
Abdul Rasheed Na’Allah Women and Ilorin Traditional Oral Poetry	21
Lorna McDaniel The Dance Ring in Black Women’s Writings: Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow	35
Joseph Mclaren Female Images in the Novels of Ngugi wa Thiong’o	47
Tola Mosadomi Images of the African Woman in Francophone Literature	63
G. N. Ofor Female Radicalism: A Response to Patriarchy	83
Bayo Ogunjimi Nigerian Women and Popculture: A Marxist-Feminist Discourse	95
Tanure Ojaide The Future of African Women’s Writing	107
Femi Ojo-Ade From Social Work to Politics: The Autobiographies of Ellen Kuzwayo and Winnie Mandela	117
J. O. Ojoade and A. B. Ojoade The Old Woman in African Proverbs	139
Grace Eche Okereke Education as a Colonial Heritage and the Nigerian Woman in Literature	157
Maria Olaussen Bessie Head and the Limits of Individualism	169
Ayò Òpéfèyítìmí Compound of Secrecy: Women in Yourba Primeval Incantation	187
Chioma Opara Emerging from the Patriarchal Confines: The Epistolary Intercourse in Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre and Sembène Ousmane's Lettres de France	197
Deborah Plant Mythic Dimensions in the Novels of Mariama Bâ	209
Jacquelin C. Peters Ties That Bind: A Diasporic View of African Hair Styles	219
Joyce Hope Scott Tribal Tales and New Mythologies: Ancestral Links in African-American Women's Fiction	235
William Slaymaker Heroines of Uhuru: Ngugi's Feminine Stereotypes	251
Jane Splawn New World Consciousness among Women in Africa and the African Diaspora	263
Ada Udechukwu Uli: Different Hands, Different Times	281
N. F. Ukadike Feminine Voices in Black African Cinema	291
Marie Umeh The Noise of Myths and the Reality of Motherhood-Fixation in Emecheta	305
Obianuju P. Umeji Igbo Women as Makers of Civilization	311
Annemarie Van Niekerk Feminist Aesthetics: Aspects of Race, Class and Gender in the Constitution of South African Short Fiction by Women	329
Donda C. West How the Works of African American Women Writers Mean: An Examination of Classical Rhetorical Structures in Their Writings	347
Wendy Woodward The Powers of Discourse: The Identity of Subaltern Women under Colonial Law in Nervous Conditions and Daughters of The Twilight	359
Bridget U.Ubochi Knowledge and Civilization	373
Dorothy Thompson Awareness of Cultural Identity and Its Influence on the Choice of Contemporary Dress among African Women in Diaspora: The Case of the African-American Woman	387