Introduction

The Introduction establishes the aims, definitions, and theoretical departure points. It describes the major epistemic shift that has taken place in Anglophone African feminist imagination in the 21st century, reframing women’s demands as universal human rights and recognizing the female sexual body as being at the centre of women’s political struggle, since it is the primary site for the production of hegemonic gender order all over the world. It is argued that for 21st-century African women writers, the “African vs. Western feminism” is no longer the analytical frame of inquiry. Their writing manifests a relational, transcultural feminism that suggests the interconnectedness of women’s histories, experiences, and struggles.