This talk expands upon the nation-building accounts of nationalist historiography. It highlights female intellectuals, who, though exist through the 1930s to 1960s, have been erased from dominant accounts about Ghanaian intellectual history and the project of nation-building. One reason for the silence of dominant scholarship and nationalist narratives on female intellectuals is that the females, unlike their male counterparts, did not write great books. Another reason is the focus of nationalist historiography on the male writer-intellectuals who led protests and anti-colonial movements. While politics did shape intellectual life in Ghana, it is no reason to think this reading of intellectuals must be permanent. Nationalist histories that include women exist. The problem is that such histories focus on an unvariegated anti-colonial women’s movement that broadly feature market women and grassroots politicians most of whom are presented as either unlettered or barely schooled. Through detailed examination of the writings of female intellectuals, this talk situates female intellectuals who pondered over the problems of Ghana and their works contextually and contemporaneously.