Gender and Leadership in Nigeria and Ghana

Part I : Literary Representations Of Women And Power.- Chapter 1: Childhood Exposure To Spousal Abuse In Marily Heward Mill's Cloth Girl.- Chapter 2: Dialectics Of Love And (Maternal) Power In Razinat Mohammed's A Love Like A Woman's And Other Stories.- Chapter 3: A Deconstructionist Reading Of Zaynab Alkali's The Still Born.- Chapter 4: Feminist Imagery And Masculine Energy In Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa.- Chapter 5: Motherist Appraisal Of Amma Darko's Faceless.- Chapter 6: Women's Portrayal In On Black Sisters Street And The Secret Lives Of Baba Segi's Wives.- Part 2: African Women And Socio - Linguistic Contexts.- Chapter 7: Women And The Fear Of Mathematics: A Gender Analysis Of The Myths And Realities In An Odl Context.- Chapter 8: Beyond The Tar Of Bottom Power: Rising Above The Sociolinguistic Denigration Of Women's Success.- Chapter 9: A Pragma-Gender Study Of Select Couples' Emotive Language.- Chapter 10: Sociolinguistic Analysis Of Inscriptions Of Tricycles In Aba Metropolis, AbiaState.- Chapter 11: A Semiotic Study Of Gender Images In War Reports.- Part 3: African Women And Governance.- Chapter 12: Subjugation Of Widowhood: A Lexico-Semantic Analysis Of Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.- Chapter 13: Women's Legislative Participation In Ghana And Nigeria.- Chapter 14: Women And Spiritual Leadership In Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart And Toni Morrison's Beloved.- Chapter 15: Theoretical Issues In Gender And African Studies.

Mobolanle Sotunsa is a professor of Gender Studies and African Oral Literature at Babcock University, Nigeria. Sotunsa is the coordinator of Gender and African Studies Group, Babcock University (BUGAS). She is also the Director of Babcock University Centre for Open, Distance, and e-learning (BUCODeL).



Abiola Sakirat Kalejaiye (PhD) is a lecturer at Babcock University, Ilisan Remo. She teaches language courses both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Kalejaiye is a member of Gender and African Studies Group, Babcock University (BUGAS). She is also the commissioned editor of Babcock University Centre for Open, Distance, and e-learning (BUCODeL).

Patricia Animah Nyamekye is a lecturer and a Head of Department in Arts and Social Studies at Valley View University, Ghana