-With the publication of Women Writers in Black Africa, the well-informed Africanist and literati will have no excuse for ignoring the black female writer in Africa. ... The importance of this book lies not only in its contributions to literary criticism, but also in the author's effort to integrate literary and social issues and to offer an intellectual and literary depth heretofore missing in the criticism, if not the literature, of male writers in Africa. ... The bibliography alone provides a convenient, useful list of works by black women writers. For those already familiar with African literature and those who know little about the subject, this book will facilitate the need to give women writers in Africa equable, serious attention in the classroom and in literary criticism. As such, Women Writers in Black Africa begins to fill a crucial gap in Women's Studies and African Literature. —African Studies Review