Sisterhood, Feminisms and Power: From Africa to the Diaspora Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: Reading the Rainbow	1
	The African Woman Today	39
	Feminism and African Womanhood	51
	African Women at the Grassroots: The Silent Partners of the Women's Movement	65
	Women and Creative Writing in Africa	89
	Female Power: Water Priestesses of the Oru-Igbo	101
	An Appraisal of Feminism in the Socio-Political Development of Nigeria	133
	Africana Womanism	149
	North American Feminisms/Global Feminisms: Contradictory or Complementary?	163
	The Gap Between Gender Research and Activism in Uganda	183
	Challenges for the Inclusion of Gender Issues in Social Science Research and Planning	193
	Singing in Prison: Women Writers and the Discourse of Resistance	197
	Closing the Gap - Activism and Academia in South Africa: Towards a Women's Movement	215
	The Arab Women's Solidarity Association: The Contexts of Controversy and the Politics of Voice	239
	Maternal Politics in Organizing Black South African Women: The Historical Lesson	251
	Building a Power Organization: A Network Team Approach to Grassroots Organizing	263
	White Women in Umkhonto We Sizwe, the ANC Army of Liberation: "Traitors" to Race, Class and Gender	285
	Carrying the Baton: Personal Perspectives on the Modern Women's Movement in Nigeria	297
	Adjustment and Assimilation in Tanzania: A Personal Experience	323
	The Development of a Sisterhood in Memphis, Tennessee	333
	This Women's Studies Business: Beyond Politics and History (Thoughts on the First WAAD Conference)	351
	Bridges Across Activism and the Academy: One Psychologist's Perspective	389
	Thinking Igbo, Thinking African	393
	Funding African Participants	397
	"So Why Theorize about the Brontes": African Women Writers and English Literature in Finland	401
	Reflections on Nsukka '92	405
	The Nigeria Conference Revisited	411
	The Nigeria Conference	419
	Black and White: We Are One, Sustained by Sisterly Love	421
	Building or Burning Bridges? A Report from the 1992 Women in Africa and the African Diaspora Conference	425
	In Search of Common Ground	429
	Bridges and Ridges	433
	The 1992 WAAD Conference: Some Thoughts	435
	Reflections on the 1992 WAAD Conference	439
	WAAD Conference at ASA	441
	Cross-Atlantic Womanism(s): An African American Woman's Reflections on the Women in Africa and the African Diaspora Conference 1992	445
	Self-Naming and Self-Definition: An Agenda for Survival	449
	African Culture and Womanhood: The Issue of Single-Parenthood	453
	Thoughts on the 1992 WAAD Conference	457
	The WAAD Conference and Beyond: A Look at Africana Womanism	461
	The First International Conference on Women in Africa and the African Diaspora: A View from the U.S.A.	465
	Communique	471
	Association of African Women Scholars (AAWS)	475
	Statement from the South African Delegation Regarding the Request by Some Participants that Whites Be Excluded from Presenting Papers at the WAAD Conference	479
	List of Acronyms	481
	Selected Bibliography	485
	Notes on Contributors	499
	Index	507