Ah so exciting, University of Ibadan is really cool. I want to spend time there at some point in the future to access the National Archive.
Yeah gender and women studies in West Africa, that was the focus of my masters research. Some edited volumes I really enjoyed were
Hafkin, Nancy J., and Bay, Edna G. (eds). Women in Africa: Studies in Social and Economic Change., Cole, Catherine M., Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan F. Miescher, eds. Africa after Gender? , and Falola, T. and Aderinto S., Nigeria, Nationalism and Writing History, has a chapter on gender which is interesting.
Fingers crossed for the two of us. African history is subset of history so hopefully we will bump into each other at a conference or something.