Vol 2, No 1 (2000)

Special Issue on Gender

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A special issue on Gender from West Africa Review.

Table of Contents

Editorial

Editorial: African Women and the Fire Dance
Nkiru Nzegwu
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Articles

Women, the State, and the Travails of Decentralizing the Nigerian Federation
Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome
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Igbo Women From 1929-1960
John N. Oriji
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Women in Africa: Their Socio-Political and Economic Roles
Titi Ufomata
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New Gender Perspectives for the Millennium: Challenges and Successful Models of North-South Collaboration
Madonna Owusuah Larbi
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What Women's Studies Offer Men: Entremesa Discussion
Biko Agozino
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The Clinton Controversies and the African (Igbo) World
Obioma Nnaemeka
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African Women and Literature
Carolyn Kumah
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Marriage, Women, and Tradition in Guillaume Oyono Mbia's Three Suitors: One Husband
Tola Mosadomi
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Review Essays

Chasing Shadows: The Misplaced Search for Matriarchy
Nkiru Nzegwu
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African Politics, African Literatures: Thoughts on Mahmood Mamdani's Citizen and Subject and Wole Soyinka's The Open Sore of a Continent
Olakunle George
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"Z is for Zero and N is for Nigger:" Postcolonial Theory of Theory for Recolonization?
Biko Agozino
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Interviews

An Interview with Claude Ake
Walusako Mwalilino
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An Interview with Ezenwa-Ohaeto on the Publication of the Biography of Chinua Achebe
Paul Onyemechi Onovoh
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