This practice-led PhD thesis comprises two sections: the novel, Where A Million Sunrays Rise, and a critical analysis. Set between the 1980s and the early 2000s, the novel is a work of contemporary literary fiction about a young woman who undergoes a series of transformative events from childhood to the age of twenty-three. The critical thesis examines representations of the intersections between African women’s literature and trauma narratives in contemporary African novels, as portrayed by Nawal El Saadawi, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and me, Roselyne Ngure, from 1983 to 2025. I consider how their Black African narratives of trauma enact resistance to the Westernisation and universalisation of trauma studies, which fortuitously or otherwise may attempt to systematically restrict, constrain, and assimilate the idiosyncrasies of their trauma experiences. I develop a transnational, pan-African approach to reading and writing that applies to cross-cultural trauma experiences within each text, as well as to the affinities I observe among the authors I consider. I’m interested in the kinds of solidarity the authors imagine in their work, particularly in their accentuations of the marginalised or ignored traumatic experiences of non-Western minority cultures, seemingly taken for granted in the universal validity of definitions of trauma and recovery, taken up by the history of Western modernity. My outlook, both in reading and writing, is transnational and global; however, resistance within the African local context holds a fundamental place in both my creative and critical explorations. I argue that the narratives expose the complex interrelation of women’s suffering and loss, as well as wounds of trauma swathed in forms of violence against women. Ultimately, I suggest that acts of nuancing and specificity, both in definitions and in recognition, in fictional African women's narratives and storytelling must become both applicable and revolutionary to the way we conceptualise trauma theory.