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Women writing Africa. Vol. 2, West Africa and the Sahel / edited by Esi Sutherland-Addy and Aminata Diaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Women writing Africa project ; v. 2.
- Women writing Africa project ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African literature (English)--Women authors.
- African literature (English).
- Women--Africa--Literary collections.
- Women.
- Women--Africa--History--Sources.
- Africa--Literary collections.
- Africa.
- Africa--History--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (477 p. ; 24 cm.).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2003.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Tusyline Jita Allan, Dierde L. Badejo, Abena P.A. Busia, Aminata Diaw, Christiane Owusu-Sarpong, Esi Sutherland-Addy
- Ritual and ceremonial words
- Oya, or the wind behind the lightning / Ede Court Historians
- Praise poem for Osun / Olorisa Osun
- Maïéto, or the battle of the sexes / Béatrice Djedja
- The plump woman's song / Communal
- Marriage song cycles
- Dyula songs / Young women of Kong
- Hausa songs / Communal
- She who destroys her harp / Dior Konate
- Arrival of the new bride
- Xaxar, or satirical song / Communal
- Welcoming the bride / Communal
- Celebrating birth
- Where is it from / Communal
- If not for childbirth / Communal
- Kanyeleng, or childless / Binita Bojang
- Lamentations
- Nyaako / Afua Siaa (Fofie)
- We offer you condolences / Manhyia Tete Nwonkoro Group
- Dry your tears, little orphan doe / Communal
- Ntam, an oath / Nanahemmaa Toaa Ampofo Tua III
- Thirteenth century to 1916: the age of African empires
- Two songs for Sunjata / Communal
- Elegy for Inikpi / Communal
- Letter of petition / Madalena Van Poppos
- Poems / Nana Asma'u
- Give us victory
- Be sure of God's truth
- Elegy for Zaharatu
- Makori, or the triumph of slaves / Nditi Ba
- The warring hosts / Ola Bentsir Adzewa group
- Letter from a former slave / Malinda Rex
- Letters of Queen Victoria's wards
- Letters of Sarah Forbes Bonetta
- Letters of Victoria Davies
- Letter from the women of Senehun / Mame Yoko and others
- Two letters to the editor / Anonymous
- Lullabies and songs of young women
- Lullabies
- Ayo, my baby / Samba Tew Sew
- Lullaby / Communal
- Hindatou / Maman Ibrah Hinda
- Who did my baby wrong / Miriam Gaye
- I'd like to stay / Communal
- An old man / Communal
- Carry on and have fun / Communal
- Circle songs
- Even if you beat me / Communal
- I will buy you a shirt / Communal
- Maidens in a group / Communal.
- 1916 to 1970: the rise of nationalism
- A mother's plea: two letters / N'della Sey
- Anti-colonial songs / Women of Passoré and Ladre
- The white man has come
- Bamko
- Poko
- A petition / Houleye Diop
- The Aba women's war
- Nwanyeruwa
- Satire from the "Women's corner"
- To Miss Bridget Thomas / Yaa Ampongah
- Stupefied / Odarley Koshie
- What we women can do / Efwa Kato
- Champion of twins / Elizabeth Mgbeke Ezumah
- My little country / Mariama Bâ
- Nothing so sweet / P.A. Itayemi Ogundipe
- The march on Grand Bassam
- That is how the women woke up / Anne-Marie Raggi
- My name is Lucie Traoré / Lucie Traoré Kaboré
- From the "Women's column" / Mabel Dove-Danquah and others
- The blackman's burden / Adjua Mensah
- An ode / Akua Amaku
- I have tamed my wife / Akosua Dzatsui (pseud. for Mabel Dove-Danquah)
- Mother and daughter
- Profile of Gladys / Adelaide Casely-Hayford
- Africa schoolgirls' song / Gladys Caseley-Hayford
- New life / Efua Sutherland
- The roadmakers
- Foriwa
- We women of the Upper Volta / Celestine Ouezzin Coulibaly
- On widowhood / Kate Abbam
- We were with you, dedicated to Ethel Kennedy
- We shall overcome
- Christianity and widowhood rites
- Mayor of Freetown / Constance Agatha Cummings-John
- Affirmations and remembrances / Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti
- The status of women in Nigeria
- Autobiographical notes
- The causes for revolt remembered
- Work songs
- Greetings and Praise
- You of the house / Communal One single measure / Communal
- Invocation at milking / Communal
- Praise song / Zebuglo of Loho
- Songs of migration
- The beauty of Kumasi / Communal
- These west-coasters are liars / Communal
- The non-migrant's song / Communal
- Songs of insult
- Tabardé, or blanket making / Communal
- The sisters-in-law Diedhiou / Communal
- Seybata, or my backside, insult her / Communal.
- The 1970s and 1980s: negotiating new social identities
- Tanofia / Selma Al-Hassan
- The traveller / Flora Nwapa
- Two poems / Adja Khady Diop
- The work of Senegalese women
- The year we looked up at the balloon
- Conversation with midwife Sokona Diaoune / Aoua Keita
- Rural poems
- Tribute to Yaxa Ma Jam women / Khadi Diop
- Emigration terrifies me / Ndeye Seck
- A necessary evil / Buchi Emecheta
- Two songs / Daughters of Divine Love
- How the Daughters of Divine Love congregation started in the year 1969
- We love you, Jesus
- Allah is the light in the darkness / Hadjia Coge
- Jesus of the deep forest / Afua Kuma
- Listen to me, child of a Griot / Toelo
- Love poems for the Sultan / Shaïda Zarumey
- Incense
- Taka
- Nawa's lament / Nawa Kulibali
- President Doe's prisoner / Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
- Songs and tales of social negotiation
- The man who dug up yams / Nyano Bamana
- Name poems / Communal
- Hasan
- Sîta
- Eyidi, or naming / Communal
- Recitatives for drum and dancers
- Play for me, drummer man / Sadi Habi
- Taasu / Marame Seye
- The gazelle / Communal
- Types of wives and husbands / Salle-ka-ma-kani
- Five types of wives
- Three types of husbands
- The poor orphan: a folktale / Nana Yaa Tiakaa
- Bodies and babies: three songs
- The torments of labor / Communal
- I have hope / Communal
- Did you say I am old / Kunak Bonat
- I am not a cow / Bohintu Kulibali.
- The 1990s and the new century
- Eclectic connections / Werewere Liking
- Interview
- From Singuè Mura, or given that a woman
- A decent woman / Bernadette Dao Sanou
- Speaking as a woman / Ama Ata Aidoo
- The African woman today
- A young woman's voice doesn't break, it gets firmer
- The ugliest girl in the kingdom / Deborah Nazi-Boni
- A trader caught in ethnic violence / Afua Kobi
- Russians under Accra / Amma Darko
- Regrets for Rwanda
- From There is no suitable word / Tanella Boni
- Where to find the proper word
- Silence came reluctantly
- Thousands of specks of dust we were
- From The shadow of Imana / Véronique Tadjo
- The story of Cansolata
- Anastasio and Anastasia
- Kapro, the royal gift / Nana Adwoa Anokyewaa
- The importance of work / Adja Dior Diop
- Teaching the Qur'an / Adja Mariama Niasse
- A Wassoulou singer / Oumou Sangare
- A perfect wife / Anna Dao
- Child soldiering / Isatou Alwar Cham-Graham
- The hunger project award speech / Nagbila Aisseta
- En route to the twenty first century / Mariama Ndoye
- Africa is not poor: an interview with Debra S. Boyd / Aminata Traore.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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