AFRICAN FEMINISM: AN OVERVIEW

Abstract

Feminism offers an interesting pattern of thought in African literary criticism. It addresses the important issue of gender-based violence from diverse African feminist ideologies such as Radical feminism, Motherism, Snail-Sense feminism, Womanism, Nego-Feminism and Stiwanism. These feminist ideologies define the struggles of the female gender within African cultural milieu with a unique feminist consciousness wrapped in female assertiveness and female bonding—these are collective ideologies that are geared towards achieving freedom for the female gender.