BESSIE HOUSE-MIDAMBA is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kent State University. She is the author of Class Development and Gender Inequality in Kenya, 1963-1990 (1990).FELIX K. EKECHI is Professor of History at Kent State University. He is the author of Missionary Enterprise and Rivalry in Igboland (1972) and Tradition and Transformation in Eastern Nigeria (1989).

• Acknowledgments Introduction by Bessie House-Midamba and Felix K. Ekechi Esan Women Traders and Pre-Colonial Economic Power by Onaiwu W. Ogbomo Gender, Business, and Space Control: Yoruba Market Women and Power by Toyin Falola Gender and Economic Power: The Case of Igbo Market Women of Eastern Nigeria by Felix K. Ekechi Muslim Women Traders of Northern Nigeria: Perspectives from the City of Yola by Catherine VerEecke Kikuyu Market Women Traders and the Struggle for Economic Empowerment in Kenya by Bessie House-Midamba Comparative Advantage: Women in Trade in Accra, Ghana, and Nairobi, Kenya by Claire Robertson Baganda Women's Night Market Activities by Nakanyike B. Musisi Women's Fresh Produce Marketing in Harare, Zimbabwe: Motivations for Women's Participation and Implications for Development by Nancy E. Horn Trade, Economy and Family in Urban Zimbabwe by Mary Johnson Osirim The Growth and Dynamics of Women Entrepreneurs in Southern Africa by Jeanne Downing Bibliography Index

BESSIE HOUSE-MIDAMBA is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kent State University. She is the author of Class Development and Gender Inequality in Kenya, 1963-1990 (1990).FELIX K. EKECHI is Professor of History at Kent State University. He is the author of Missionary Enterprise and Rivalry in Igboland (1972) and Tradition and Transformation in Eastern Nigeria (1989).

• Acknowledgments Introduction by Bessie House-Midamba and Felix K. Ekechi Esan Women Traders and Pre-Colonial Economic Power by Onaiwu W. Ogbomo Gender, Business, and Space Control: Yoruba Market Women and Power by Toyin Falola Gender and Economic Power: The Case of Igbo Market Women of Eastern Nigeria by Felix K. Ekechi Muslim Women Traders of Northern Nigeria: Perspectives from the City of Yola by Catherine VerEecke Kikuyu Market Women Traders and the Struggle for Economic Empowerment in Kenya by Bessie House-Midamba Comparative Advantage: Women in Trade in Accra, Ghana, and Nairobi, Kenya by Claire Robertson Baganda Women's Night Market Activities by Nakanyike B. Musisi Women's Fresh Produce Marketing in Harare, Zimbabwe: Motivations for Women's Participation and Implications for Development by Nancy E. Horn Trade, Economy and Family in Urban Zimbabwe by Mary Johnson Osirim The Growth and Dynamics of Women Entrepreneurs in Southern Africa by Jeanne Downing Bibliography Index