New Daughters of Africa
Book description
Three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of contemporary writing by 200 women writers of African descent, including Zadie Smith, Bernardine Evaristo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
A glorious portrayal of the richness and range of African women's voices, this major international book…
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1 author picked New Daughters of Africa as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This anthology of African women writers has been my personal lodestar in writing about Regina Twala, a forgotten African writer.
Busby (a pioneering editor and publisher of Ghanaian heritage) was one of the first to recognize that the canon of African writers was much bigger than famous men like Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka.
Her work taught me about a longstanding rich female literary tradition on the African continent – some of her earliest examples of women writers date to Ancient Egypt!
Busby recognizes that we can’t always look to the written page for evidence of this, given that many…
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