Nwando Achebe
Nwando Achebe | |
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| Relatives | Chinua Achebe (father) |
| Philosophical work | |
| School | West Africanist, oral historian, feminism |
| Institutions | Michigan State University, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Main interests | Women, gender, oral history, Sexuality, Africa, West Africa |
| Notable works | Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland: 1900–1960, The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe, History of West Africa E-Course Book, A Companion to African History, Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing Perspective, Female Kings and Merchant Queens in Africa. |
| Website | nwandoachebe |
Nwando Achebe // ⓘ (born 7 March 1970), is a Nigerian-American academic, academic administrator, feminist scholar, and historian. She is a University Distinguished Professor, Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History, and the Associate Dean for Access, Faculty Development, and Strategic Implementation in the College of Social Science at Michigan State University. She is also founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of West African History. She works on 19th- and 20th-century cultural, political, social, and religious histories with a focus on women and gender.