In this chapter, the narratives are accounts, events, contexts and phenomenon related to my lived experiences as a researcher and young female historian in women and gender studies, specifically researching and writing about market women. Historical writing in Africa was standardised from the teaching and research from Ibadan University Department of History, ‘Ibadan School of History’ (ISH), Nigeria. The motivations for the evolution of ISH were a response to challenge the colonial and European perceptions of Africans as not civilised or literate. Writing history became prominent in the 1950s using oral traditions to trace Africa’s past. Based on this, my experiences as a female researcher tended towards scholarship in women’s and gender studies to reiterate the power status of women in Africa and identify the problems of powerlessness. © The Author(s) 2019.
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