While the panel "Toyin Falola and the Historiography of Women in Africa and the African Diaspora" holistically considers the multi-variegated question of Toyin Falola’s contributions to the history and historiography of Africa women, this paper seeks to offer specific insights into strategies from Toyin Falola’s scholarship that provide prospects for advancing feminist scholarship about African women. Focus on marginalised subjects, an integrated analytical viewpoint, interdisciplinarity and pluriversality, firm connections between Africa and the diaspora, foregrounding of global and local narratives, the covertly political project of mentorship of a new generation – these and more constitute alternative pathways mastered by Toyin Falola that I suggest may be applied for addressing the identified pathologies of scholarship about women in Africa and the African diaspora