The portrayal of women and race issues in the Mozambican Colonial War

Hello, I am hoping that someone can please help me! I have an essay topic, which is the portrayal of women and race issues in the Mozambican Colonial War? But my professor says that this is the theme, which it's not. He is asking me to fromulate a specic research question for this but I don't know how else to make that into a research question because to me that looks like a research question. PLEASE help me to formulate one because I have no idea how to do this at all. Thank you ver much!

By the way, the class is about African Women's Writing during the Portuguese power over the African colonies. I am supposed to create my own essay topic, but nothing I come up with is good enough, so please someone help me formulate this.

You are getting mixed up because of the ways people use various words in writing papers... it's going to be okay!

Here is a topic/theme:

the portrayal of women and race issues in the Mozambican Colonial War

First of all, the portrayal of women by who? Here is a good title

African Women's Writing:
Their portrayal of women and race issues during the Mozambican Colonial War

Now, for the specific research question, here is what to do:
Find a couple of books and articles that you'll write about,(or if you are using a course text book, find a few sections of it that you'll write about,and see what specific questions are answered.

for example:

What was the effect of the war on gender roles?
What changes took place during the war with regard to racial issues?
How did African women perceive themselves in relation to [some other group] during the war?