Pascale Petit, is a French-born British poet of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. She was born in Paris and grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist for the first part of her life. She has travelled widely, particularly in the Peruvian and Venezuelan Amazon and India.
Dorothy Coade Hewett was an Australian playwright, poet and author, and a romantic feminist icon. In writing and in her life, Hewett was an experimenter. As her circumstances and beliefs changed, she progressed through different literary styles: modernism, socialist realism, expressionism and avant garde. She was a member of the Australian Communist Party in the 1950s and 1960s, which informed her work during that period.
Ken Bugul is the pen name of Senegalese Francophone novelist Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma. In the Wolof language, her pen name means "one who is unwanted".
Jeannette Balou Tchichelle (1947–2005) was a Congolese and French writer. She was born in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. In 1969 she moved to France, where she lived with her three sons. In 1989, vanity press La Pensée Universelle published her book Coeur en exil, in which she wrote about life in Paris and expressed a homesickness for her native country.
Khadidjatou Fall, generally called Khadi Fall, is a Senegalese author and former government minister.
Makhosazana Xaba is a South African poet and short-story writer. She trained as a nurse and has worked a women's health specialist in NGOs, as well as writing on gender and health. She is Associate Professor of Practice in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg.
Bestine Kazadi Ditabala,, is a Congolese writer.
Muriel Diallo is an Ivory Coast writer.
Remi Aduke Adedeji is a Nigerian writer for children.
Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo is a Guinean poet, novelist and playwright who writes in both French and Fulani.
Mariama Kesso Diallo is a Guinean writer living in Switzerland.
Jeanne Gervais, néeJeanne Ahou Siefer-N’Dri was an Ivorian politician and the first woman minister in Côte d'Ivoire.
Nadège Noële Ango Obiang, born on December 20, 1973, in Libreville in Gabon is a Gabonese writer. Her literary works include short stories, drama, romance, pictures, scripts and poetry. Obiang has a university degree in Economics. She combines the two professions of being a writer and an economist.
Joséphine Guidy Wandja is an Ivorian mathematician. She is the first African woman with a PhD in mathematics.
Sandra Pierrette Kanzié is a poet and the first woman from Burkina Faso to be published.
Salma Khalil Alio is a Chadian poet and writer, photographer, caricaturist and graphic artist.
The École normale de Rufisque was a teacher-training institute for women from French West Africa in Rufisque, Senegal. It existed from 1938 to 1958.
