ABSTRACT
During the first half of the 1980s, two black women writers, one African and the other African American, used the terms "Womanist/Womanism" independently of each other to signal the unparalleled experience that black women have in the particular institutions, cultures, and societies of which they are a part. Both Alice Walker and Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi, as novelists, suggested Worn an ism as a distinctive praxis for gathering and narrating spheres of knowledge about the lives of black women. 1
