Re-Creating Ourselves: African Women & Critical Transformations “is a selection of writings in which the author has critically and creatively pondered issues of gender, politics and social transformation for at least three decades. Spanning the period between the 1970s and the 1990s, this collection highlights the most outstanding issues on the African continent-- political decolonization, the place of writing and the writer, decolonizing scholarship and research as well as modes of social activism. The book falls into two parts: the first part, theory, comprising theoretical essays on literature, women and society, leads into the second part, practice, which presents Ogundipe-Leslie's work as a social activist. Both parts are linked by [Ogundipe-Leslie]'s poetry.”