Nigeria, March 23 -- The unequal status of women persists, despite various waves of feminist activism around the world for centuries. One major gain of feminists, however, is the rate at which their views have spread and how far their influence now reaches.

But there's a gap in knowledge of how feminism has developed - in practice and as an academic subject - in countries like Nigeria. Specifically, little has been done to trace the contributions of local writers, thinkers and activists to feminism.

In our paper we set out to fill this gap.

In particular we aimed to trace the contribution that Nigerian academics have made to transnational feminism. Transnational feminism emerged in the 1970s when feminists realised that the movement ha...