The history of women and gender in Africa as a whole

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Sylvie Kinigi, Prime Minister of Burundi
Reuters, 23 December 1994. Paucity of women holding political office in Africa.
The Ignored Cost of Adjustment: Women under SAPs in Africa
A Development GAP Discussion Paper prepared for the Fourth United Nations Conference on Women, by Lisa McGow, August 1995.
Give us our piece of the pie
By Lewis Gaba, AfricaNews, April 1997. Feeling unappreciated and marginalised in post-independence Southern Africa, women ex-freedom fighters held a convention in Johanesburg, where they resolve to fight back.
The Challenges and Prospects for the African Women's Movement in the 21st Century
By Patricia McFadden, Women in Action, 1997.
African Women Vow to Fight for Peace
Press release from Pan African Women's Organization (PAWO) at close of its Eighth Conference in Harare, 16 August 1997.
Women Groups Prepare For The Next Millennium
By Lewis Machipisa, IPS, 23 November 1998. Seminar on ‘Governance and Management for African Women's Non-Governmental organisations (NGOs),’ organised by African Women's Leadership Institute and Akina Mama wa Afrika.
Women's Inheritance Rights in Africa
From Marie-Elena John Smith, 6 July 1999. An invitation to support an effort by a group of West African women's rights organizations to promote awareness of the devastating effects of discriminatory inheritance rights practices on women and children in Africa.
Assessing Women's Empowerment Since Beijing Summit
By Farah Khan, IPS, 23 November 1999. 1,500 participants kick off the Sixth Regional Conference in Addis Ababa to assess 12 areas of concern which African leaders set out at Beijing, China, and in Dakar, Senegal, in 1995.