Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Biography: The Illegitimate Child Who Wrote the First Feminist Manifesto in the Americas

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Biography

The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Biography: The Illegitimate Child Who Wrote the First Feminist Manifesto in the Americas. Born illegitimate in colonial Mexico in 1651, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz knew how to read at three, asked her mother to disguise her as a boy so she could attend university, assembled the … Read more

Professor Bolanle Awe Biography: The Woman Who Write Nigeria Into History

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Professor Bolanle Awe Biography

The Professor Bolanle Awe Biography: The Woman Who Write Nigeria Into History. Bolanle Awe joined the University of Ibadan on October 1, 1960 – the exact day Nigeria became independent. She was the first woman on the history faculty. She spent the next six decades insisting that the women Nigerian history had forgotten were worth … Read more