African women: early history to the 21st century

Women and gender in Africa before 1700

Market traders, queens, and slaves in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Religion and slavery in the nineteenth century

Colonial era, 1850s to 1945: work and family

Politics, leadership, and resistance to colonialism until 1945

Liberation struggles and politics from the 1950s to the 1970s

Work, family, and urbanization from the 1970s to the 1990s

Women and politics after independence

Women at the beginning of the twenty-first century.