Interesting topic! I'm sure  there are significant differences between countries!

 These articles might help:

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846733/obo-9780199846733-0067.xml

I found a short but complete post with interesting points of view at:

https://afrikaneye.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/the-effect-of-colonlialism-on-african-women/

Enjoy!  :-)

You can obviously consider the text 'The Lion and the Jewel'. I had a personal paper on this where I explained the post-colonial and feminist aspects. But unfortunately it is not available right now. I have somehow lost it. Hope to read your paper soon.

Please check my publication there are many about women. One is about women mathematicians the other about Sufi women. Perhaps they may be of some help to you. Best of luck for your paper

Seek resources on the CIVIC CULTURE topic, and Civic, versus Communitarian Values in Political Philosophy

Several entries in the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality (Nancy Naples, general ed.), which should be published very soon.

However, you would also need to distinguish what kind of colonial situation will you look at; the French colonial system was different from the British, for example. Then, there were also differences in East Africa, where colonialism has the longest history, and precedes the spread of Islam.

Are you writing about European women as colonists or about African women's experiences under colonialism?  For the latter there is a lot of historical scholarship. Here are a few sources that can give you an idea about the types of questions being looked at: marriage and divorce law, economic/market opportunities, slave ownership by women, and leadership/participation in anti-colonial movements.

• Adu-Boahen, Kwabena. "Abolition, Economic Transition, Gender and Slavery: The Expansion of Women's Slaveholding in Ghana, 1807-1874." Slavery and Abolition, 31, no. 1, 2010.
• Allman, Jean. “Rounding Up Spinsters: Gender Chaos and Unmarried Women in Colonial Asante.” In “Wicked” Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa, Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl A. McCurdy, eds., 130-48. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2001.
• Hawkins, Sean,  "'The Woman in Question': Marriage and Identity in the Colonial Courts of Northern Ghana, 1907-1954," in Women in African Colonial Histories, eds. Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002)
• Geiger, Susan.  TANU Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tanzanian Nationalism, 1955- 1965.
• Mann, Kristin. "The Dangers of Dependence: Christian Marriage among Elite Women in Lagos Colony, 1880-1915." Journal of African History, 24, no. 1, 1983.
• Roberts, Richard. "Representation, Structure and Agency: Divorce in the French Soudan during the Early Twentieth Century." Journal of African History, 40, 1999.
• Schmidt, Elizabeth. "Negotiated Spaces and Contested Terrain: Men, Women and the Law in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1939." Journal of Southern African Studies, 16, no. 4, 1990, 622-48.
• 14. Strobel, Margaret. Muslim Women in Mombasa, 1890-1975. 1979.

You can find some ideas on Ann Stoler s' book and, if you can read in french in Pascale Barthélemy s' book

https://clio.revues.org/10140‎