VALENTINE UDOH JAMES is the Director of the African Studies Program and Associate Professor of Social Science at Kalamazoo College. He specializes in environmental planning in developing countries and has published numerous books and articles on development and environmental issues in Africa, including Resource Management in Developing Countries (Greenwood, 1991) and Sustainable Development in Third World Countries (Praeger, 1996).JAMES S. ETIM is Associate Professor of English at Mississippi Valley State University. He taught for several years at the University of Jos, Nigeria, where he was also the Head of the Department of Curriculum Studies.

• Preface Introduction Trends and Conundrums in the Feminization of Development Processes in Africa by Valentine Udoh James Sociopolitical Development Processes Women and Politics in Nigeria: An Appraisal by Kofi Johnson and R. Babatunde Oyinade Women's Empowerment and the Anthropology of Participatory Development by Ester Igandu Njiro Looking at African Women: Media Representations of Feminism, Human Rights, and Development by Amy Beer and Christine List The State and Feminization of Developmental Processes in West Africa by Ifeyinwa E. Umerah-Udezulu Historical Women in the Fight for Liberation by Felix K. Ekechi Gender-Based Discrimination in Housing and Urban Development Policies in Cameroon by Ambe J. Njoh The State and Integration of Women in Ibo: Patriarchy and Gender Advancement by Ifeyinwa E. Umerah-Udezulu Educational, Economic, and Institutional Development Women's Education in Nigeria: Improving Trends by James S. Etim African Women in the Development Process: Business and Computer Technology Issues by Alice Etim Women in the Mobilization and Allocation of Household Savings in Developing Countries: Promoting Interlinks between Women's Indigenous Savings Groups and Community Banks in Nigeria by Noble J. Nweze Women and Development in West Africa: Traditional Views in Contemporary Literature by Anthonia C. Kalu Development and Women's Writings from Southern and Northern Africa by Victoria Carchidi Index