Toyin Falola is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial professor and a distinguished teaching professor of African history at The University of Texas, Austin, TX.Nana Akua Amponsah is a PhD candidate of African women's history at The University of Texas, Austin, TX.

In this wide-ranging study, emerging scholar of women's and gender history Amponsah (doctoral student, Univ. of Texas) and prolific UT historian Falola, the author or editor of more than 100 books, explore the complex roles of African women as wives and mothers, religious practitioners, workers and employers, artists and authors, government officials, and consumers and purveyors of education. . . . Summing Up: Recommended.

• Series ForewordChronologyIntroduction: African Women in History1. Women and Courtship and Marriage2. Women and Family3. Women and Religion4. Women and Work5. Women and the Arts and Literature6. Women and Government7. Women and EducationGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Toyin Falola is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial professor and a distinguished teaching professor of African history at The University of Texas, Austin, TX.Nana Akua Amponsah is a PhD candidate of African women's history at The University of Texas, Austin, TX.

In this wide-ranging study, emerging scholar of women's and gender history Amponsah (doctoral student, Univ. of Texas) and prolific UT historian Falola, the author or editor of more than 100 books, explore the complex roles of African women as wives and mothers, religious practitioners, workers and employers, artists and authors, government officials, and consumers and purveyors of education. . . . Summing Up: Recommended.

• Series ForewordChronologyIntroduction: African Women in History1. Women and Courtship and Marriage2. Women and Family3. Women and Religion4. Women and Work5. Women and the Arts and Literature6. Women and Government7. Women and EducationGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Toyin Falola is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial professor and a distinguished teaching professor of African history at The University of Texas, Austin, TX.Nana Akua Amponsah is a PhD candidate of African women's history at The University of Texas, Austin, TX.

In this wide-ranging study, emerging scholar of women's and gender history Amponsah (doctoral student, Univ. of Texas) and prolific UT historian Falola, the author or editor of more than 100 books, explore the complex roles of African women as wives and mothers, religious practitioners, workers and employers, artists and authors, government officials, and consumers and purveyors of education. . . . Summing Up: Recommended.

• Series ForewordChronologyIntroduction: African Women in History1. Women and Courtship and Marriage2. Women and Family3. Women and Religion4. Women and Work5. Women and the Arts and Literature6. Women and Government7. Women and EducationGlossaryBibliographyIndex