My doctoral research examines how the Second World War impacted the lives and lived experiences of women in Africa, specifically, Anglophone West Africa. Moreover, their responses and reaction to war time realities and the life coping skills they adopted in the face of war time exigencies. The study is situated between the fields of history and gender studies. Therefore, using an intersectional and transnational approach, this study shall provide a new lens to interrogate the Second World War and how global events have shaped and continue to shape African femininity. As well, it shall bring the experiences of African women during the war years from the margins to the center of the discourse on Africa and the Second World War. In undertaking this study, I shall employ the use of archival sources, newspaper reportage of the war years, war time correspondence reports, letters of African soldiers in the war front among other sources.