This chapter examines how francophone and anglophone fiction restages and archives women’s forms of resistance against colonial ideologies and practices. The Women’s War of 1929 in Igboland, the 1933 Togolese market women uprisings against taxation, the 1934 beer boycott in colonial Zimbabwe, the 1947 women’s demonstrations against taxation in Yorubaland, the 1949 women’s march in Côte d’Ivoire, the 1958 women’s mass protests in the Cameroon Grassfields, the 1959 beer hall riots and boycott in South Africa, and the 1971 Kono Women’s rebellion in eastern Sierra Leone were mostly sidelined in the then prevalent masculinist historiography, both colonial and local. Studying two novels, Echewa’s 1994 historical fictionalization of the 1929’s war, I Saw the Sky Catch Fire (1992), and Amondji’s restaging of the Ivorian women’s 1948 march in Sidjè ou la marche des femmes sur la prison de Grand-Bassam (2007), highlights women’s active participation in these aspirations for sociopolitical sovereignty. As part of their contestation strategies, the women in both events draw on socially sanctioned female forms of conflict management, genital shaming and cleansing. Departing from the emotionally deprived (post)colonial accounts and closely reading these fictional archives, we can discern the emotional landscape of thousands of social-political actors who provide moments of both empowerment and caution for present and future-oriented struggles for self-determination.