The gender issues have been in the front burner for about a century now. In the course of the preceding century, even the United Nations Organisation organised a global conference on women empowerment in order to discuss the issues pertaining to women and their positioning in the global setting. For the African, feminism is seen sometimes differently from the Western perspective of feminism. Many African professing feminists, especially writers, claimed that their type of feminism has a different appellation, as opposed to the Western idea of feminism. As such, such claims to womanism, feminism with a small ‘f’, etc. have been made by the African ‘feminists’. This study seeks to identify and highlight the feminisms that have been propounded within Africa, looking critically at their proponents and the psychological and sociological determinants of these diverse attitudes underlying the claims to the types of feminisms that the African propose. The study will essentially be a survey design. It will restrict itself to the textual analysis of the products and evidences to identify these African feminists across the four regions of Africa as a means of backing the claims of the identified proponents of such claims. A comparative analysis of the types of feminism found prominent among Africans in these four regions will also be done to determine how far from or near to the Western, women centred feminism the African feminism is, in relation to the proponents’ regions. It is expected that the findings of the study should reveal the bases for the disagreement with the Western-type feminsism and the reason for a non-agreement on a particular type of feminism by these African writers.
Keywords: Feminism, Western feminism, African feminisms, African writers, African regions