Brown, Lloyd W., Women Writers in Black Africa, Greenwood Press, 1981.

This book provides chapters on African women writers such as Bessie Head, Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta, and others. One of the first of its kind written solely about African women writers, it purports to write African women writers into the canon of African literature through literary analysis.

Bruner, Charlotte H., Unwinding Threads: Writing by Women in Africa, Heinemann, 1994.

This is a collection of short stories by African women from all parts of the continent. Divided by region, the book provides a comprehensive view of the variety and diversity of African women's approaches to imaginative writing. Many well-known and new writers are represented.

Owomoyela, Oyekan, ed., A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures, University of Nebraska Press, 1993.

A range of bibliographic articles covering African literary production in all European languages represented on the continent. Chapters on women's literary...