Awa et autres revues féminines en Afrique francophone: par-delà les lieux communs

The article takes into consideration women’s magazines published in French speaking Africa during the colonial period and immediately after the Independences. In addition to offering an overview of the more or lesser-known publications (in particular «Awa: la revue de la femme noire»), it focuses on some prejudices that have so far prevented us from considering the French-speaking African women’s press as a fundamental element to understand the international feminist planetary movement. The careful reading of «Awa: la revue de la femme noire», made available thanks to the digitization and online publication of all the issues, shows in fact avant-garde positions, dissidencies, and active participation in a cosmopolitan community that, in the Sixties and Seventies, had much to say to our contemporaneity.