Aincre Maame-Fosua Evans

Research Topic

"A storm there will be": The Women's Movements of British West Africa and their Global Significance (1940-1970)

Aincre Maame-Fosua Evans is a DPhil candidate in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford, specialising in women's movements in British West Africa from 1940 to 1970. Her doctoral research focuses on early women activists and their organisations in Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Nigeria in the mid-twentieth century. The project traces the connections established by these early activists to a broader transnational feminist movement that was expanding in the mid-twentieth century. By revisiting the base assumptions surrounding the political history and nature of early women's organising in West Africa, Evans's work asserts that these movements and the women leading them forged solidarities that stretched across the Atlantic and traces their contributions to the global feminist movements of this period. Evans’s research offers a foundation for the significant contributions of West African women to global feminist movements and underscores the lasting impact of their work on contemporary women's activism.

Supervisors: Brenda Stevenson and Sloan Mahone