Introduction / Toyin Falola and Bessie Hous-Soremekun --. - African widowhood and visibility / Iniobong I. Uko --. - Overwhelming the burden of womanhood in 'To live again' by Bilquisu Abubakar / Alexander Kure --. - Food consumption patterns of lactating mothers in Ondo West local government area of Nigeria / Cecilia A. Olarewaju --. - A motivational treatise on parenting / Bola Dauda --. - "I am not his slave:" contesting marriage among the Hausa on a Cameroonian frontier, c. 1920-1955 / Harmony O'Rourke --. - Combating teenage pregnancy and early marriage through non-formal education / Oluyemisi O. Obilade and Oladunni O. Obilade --. - Gender, sexuality and work: a case study of domestic workers in Nigeria / Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed --. - Gender, violence, and reconstruction in post-war Sierra Leone / Peter Dumbuya --. - Gendered violence, and power relations in the drama of Tracie Utoh-Ezeajugh / Ameh Dennis Akoh --. - Maurice Amutabi's 'because of honor': gender relations and social upheaval in Eas