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SUMMARY
This study used Oyeronke Oyewumi and Omalara Ogundipe Leslie as a case study to look at the contributions of Nigerian women to trans-national discourse on feminism. From the foregoing overview of the works of these Nigerian women, a case can established for their contributions to the transnational landscape of feminist discourse. These have not only added their voices to the calls for women in Nigeria to be given due recognition within their society but also to for African women to be given their due as well. As previously noted the vast concentration of serious published scholarship on African women and gender in the past quarter of a century has mostly been conducted by female scholars originating from Nigeria. The country has produced well-placed scholars who have dedicated their writings to exploring women’s issues, the nature or non-existence of gender (as shown in this research of Oyewumi text below), sex, and sexuality in particular African contexts. They have all, in one way or another, challenged flawed Western derived theoretical impositions upon distinctly African societies. Their works can be described as talking back to western writer and offering a corrective to the narratives put in place as a result of Western feminist misinterpretation of recognized African institutions. They have challenged Western feminists misinterpretations of ethnographic evidence to assume a universal subordination of women; the presence of a non-existent public-private dichotomy in African societies to explain female subordination.
