# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/molara-ogundipe
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:03:03.049Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/molara-ogundipe"
name: "Molara Ogundipe"
slug: "molara-ogundipe"
description: "Omolara Ogundipe-Leslie, also known as Molara Ogundipe and Omolara Leslie, was a Nigerian poet, critic, editor, feminist, and activist. Considered one of the foremost writers on African feminism, gender studies and literary theory, she was a social critic who came to be recognized as a viable authority on African women among black feminists and feminists in general. She contributed the piece \"Not Spinning on the Axis of Maleness\" to the 1984 anthology Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, edited by Robin Morgan. She is most celebrated for coining the term STIWA, or Social Transformation in Africa Including Women."
tagline: "Nigerian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Molara_Ogundipe-Leslie.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "NG"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-12-27"
deathDate: "2019-06-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump