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Molara Ogundipe
Nigerian writer (–)
Omolara Ogundipe-Leslie (27 December – 18 June ),[1] also known as Molara Ogundipe, was a Nigerian poet, critic, editor, feminist and activist. Considered one of the foremost writers on African feminism, gender studies and literary theory, she was a social critic who came to be recognized as a viable authority on African women among black feminists and feminists in general.[2] She contributed the piece "Not Spinning on the Axis of Maleness" to the anthology Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, edited by Robin Morgan.[3] She is most celebrated for coining the term STIWA[4] or Social Transformation in Africa Including Women.[5]
Life
[edit]Abiodun Omolara Ogundipe was born in Lagos, Nigeria, to a family of educators and clergy. She attended Queen's School, Ede, and went on to become the first woman to obtain a first-class BA Honours degree in English at University College Ibadan, then a college of the University of London.[6] She later earned a doctorate in Narratology (the theory of narrative) from Leiden University, one of the oldest universities in Europe. She taught English Studies, Writing, Comparative Literature and Gender from the p
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Molara Ogundipe - poet, writer, literary critic, social activist , Marxist scholar, Stiwanist Feminist
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Molara Ogundipe - poet, writer, literary critic, social activist , Marxist scholar, Stiwanist Feminist and anAfrica- centered ,nationalist intellectual.
Twenty five years ago, Molara Ogundipelaunched one of the most incisive and formidable works on “the Woman Question,” so to speak, namely, Recreating Ourselves African Women and Critical Transformations . New Jersey: Africa World Press, This work continues to be one of the shining jewels in feminist scholarship and literary critique, and we look forward to a reprint of this book by the publishers, in honor of this great scholar, who joined the ancestors on June 18, Recreating Ourselves is as insightful, refreshing, illuminating and relevant today, as it was when first p
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