Prelude

In the great efforts to reclaim Africa’s history of political influence, a surge of educational information has been promulgated to rewrite African women into mainstream political history. Documentaries, films, blogs and books on Africa’s ancient and pre-colonial herstories have been published to re-centre African women’s agency in political narratives.

In the great efforts to reclaim Africa’s history of political influence, a surge of educational information has been promulgated to rewrite African women into mainstream political history. Documentaries, films, blogs and books on Africa’s ancient and pre-colonial herstories have been published to re-centre African women’s agency in political narratives. The common denominator among some of the publications is to educate and remind us that the story of women’s subjugation is not the only narrative that represents the realities of African women. The narrative of triumph, leadership and resistance have also all been captured through literary, scholarly articles and publications that highlight African women’s roles in national liberation struggles (Tillinghast & McFadden 1991, Frates 1993, Lyons 2004, Magadla 2023, Mignanti 2024), African women’s anticolonial resistances (Hiralal 2017, Bouka 2020), women’s organization through social movements (Dieng 2023, Omotoso & Faniyi 2024) as well as African women leaders continue to be documented.