Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Toyin Falola and Bessie Hous-Soremekun --- African widowhood and visibility / Iniobong I. Uko -- Overwhelming the burden of womanhood in 'To live again' by Bilquisu Abubakar / Alexander Kure -- Food consumption patterns of lactating mothers in Ondo West local government area of Nigeria / Cecilia A. Olarewaju -- A motivational treatise on parenting / Bola Dauda -- "I am not his slave:" contesting marriage among the Hausa on a Cameroonian frontier, c. 1920-1955 / Harmony O'Rourke -- Combating teenage pregnancy and early marriage through non-formal education / Oluyemisi O. Obilade and Oladunni O. Obilade -- Gender, sexuality and work: a case study of domestic workers in Nigeria / Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed -- Gender, violence, and reconstruction in post-war Sierra Leone / Peter Dumbuya -- Gendered violence, and power relations in the drama of Tracie Utoh-Ezeajugh / Ameh Dennis Akoh -- Maurice Amutabi's 'because of honor': gender relations and social upheaval in East Africa / Eliza Johannes -- Gender equality and customary law in South Africa / Celumusa Zungu -- Politics and sexuality in Northern Nigeria in the second half of the twentieth century / J. M. Ayuba -- Sexuality, religion, and spirituality / A. A. Lawal -- African religion and the sexual exploitation of women / Adepeju Olufemi Johnson-Bashua.