Daily Life of Women in Africa
Description
A vivid, multi-layered portrait of African women's everyday lives-revealing how they negotiate power, create resilience, and build futures through ordinary acts of labor, care, and dissent.
From Hausa traders in Kano to queer activists in Johannesburg, this book explores how women across Africa from the aftermath of colonialism to today navigate power, survival, and joy in ways that defy simplistic labels.
Across thirteen chapters, Toyin Falola traces overlapping dimensions of life: kinship networks beyond the nuclear family, contested rites of passage, and the unpaid infrastructure of water and firewood. Readers encounter women reclaiming land through ritual, sustaining markets through tontine investment plans and WhatsApp savings groups, and negotiating identity through dress-from Ankara prints to secondhand mitumba. The book also illuminates intellectual and political spheres: clandestine schooling under Boko Haram, indigenous councils of justice, and digital feminism challenging algorithmic silencing. Even joy becomes resistance, as women claim pleasure through dancefloors, Nollywood, and amapiano beats.
Rejecting both pity-driven narratives and glossy myths of “super-resilience,” this work offers clarity without condescension and complexity without confusion. It shows that African women are not waiting for the future-they are building it now, through inventive, everyday acts that global frameworks often overlook.
Accessibility Information
Additional accessibility information
- EPUB 3.0
- Conforms with the requirements of EPUB Accessibility Spec v1.1
- WCAG level AA
- WCAG v2.2 compliant
- accessibility@bloomsbury.com
Hazards
The publication contains no hazards
Support for non-visual reading
- No accessibility features offered by the reading system, device or reading software are disabled or otherwise unusable with the product
- Has alternative text descriptions for images
Visual adjustments
Appearance of the text and page layout can be modified according to the capabilities of the reading system (font family and size, spaces, as well as color of background and text)
Navigation
- Page list to go to pages from the print source version
- Elements such as headings, tables, etc for structured navigation
- All or substantially all textual matter is arranged in a single logical reading order
- Content is enhanced with ARIA roles to optimize organization and facilitate navigation
- Purposes of all links are made clear
Rich content
Language tagging provided
Table of Contents
Introduction: Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Resilience
Timeline of Events
Glossary
1. Kinship
2. Girlhood, Puberty, and the Passage into Womanhood
3. Daily Survival
4. Relationship to the Land
5. Financial Life
6. Education
7. Reproductive Knowledge and Medical Care
8. Clothing
9. Homes and Housing
10. Women's Councils and Governance
11. Digital Feminism, Transnational Solidarity, and the Limits of Viral Justice
12. Joy as Resistance
13. Spirituality
Conclusion: Women Building Worlds for the Future
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Product details
| Published | 13 May 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 9798216474593 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 15 bw illus |
| Series | Daily Life through History |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Related Titles
