Nawal El-Saadawi

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1. Nawal El-Saadawi

   Author of Woman at Point Zero, Death of an ex-minister, She Has No Place in Paradise

2. bell hooks

   Author of Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

3. Buchi Emecheta

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4. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

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5. Naguib Mahfouz

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6. Audre Lorde

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7. Fatima Mernissi

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8. Mariama Bâ

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9. Bessie Head

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10. Tsitsi Dangarembga

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12. Barbara Ehrenreich

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13. Alice Walker

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14. Hanan Al-Shaykh

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15. Tayeb Salih

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16. Andrea Dworkin

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17. Chinua Achebe

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18. Ousmane Sembène

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19. Assia Djebar

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20. Nadine Gordimer

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