Feminism and modernity in Anglophone African women’s writing

Abstract

In Africa, when the backlash is placed against the backdrop of political monopoly, economic deprivation, poverty, violence, displacement, adjusting economics and globalization, the crisis multiplies tenfold. It will take a new revamped kind of feminism to resist and defeat this kind of backlash. A feminism with a capital “F”. (Tamale 2006 qtd in Pucherová 1)