Contributor
Browdy de Hernandez, Jennifer.
Imprint:Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2010.
Description337 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:Preface: roots of the collection -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: a song in seven stanzas for our granddaughters -- African women writing resistance: an introduction -- Engaging with tradition -- Speaking out: young women on sexuality -- Challenging the institution of marriage -- Focusing on survival: women's health issues -- Taking a stand: women as activists against war, environmental degradation, and social conflict -- Writing from a different place: perspectives on exile and diaspora -- Standing at the edge of time: African women's visions of the past, present, and future.
Note:A Song in seven stanzas for our granddaughters / Abena P.A. Busia (Ghana) -- The Day when God changed His mind / Eve Zvichanzi Nyemba (Zimbabwe) -- The Old woman / J. Tsitsi Mutiti (Zimbabwe) -- Interview with Kaya a Mbaya (Congo), a Babongo woman / Pierre Piya-Bouanga (Congo-Brazzaville) -- Woman weep no more / Sibongile Mtungwa (South Africa) -- Letters to my cousin / Catherine Makoni (Zimbabwe) -- Story of faith / Mamle Kabu (Ghana) -- Lovesung for my father, with poet's note / Zindzi Bedu (Nigeria) -- It's not rape if... / Ann Kithkaka (Kenya) -- To be or not to be a lesbian: the dilemma of Cameroon's women soccer players / Sybille Ngo Nyeck (Cameroon) -- My name is Kasha / Kasha N. Jacqueline (Uganda) -- Cosmo Africa and other poems / Cheshe Dow (Botswana) -- Child / Ann Kithaka (Kenya) -- Hailstones on Zamfara / Sefi Atta (Nigeria) -- The Good woman / Patricia Chogugudza (Zimbabwe) -- Ngomwa / Ellen Mulenga Banda-Aaku (Zambia) -- They came in the morning / Iheoma Obibi (Nigeria) -- The Battle of the words: oratory as women's tool of resistance to the challenges of polygamy in contemporary Wolof society / Marame Gueye (Senegal) -- Tell me why: two poems / Ann Kithaka (Kenya) -- Surviving me / Janine Lewis (South Africa) -- The Struggle to end the practice of female genital mutilation / Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt) -- Slow poison / Makuchi (Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi) (Cameroon) -- Just keep talking: two poems / Cheshe Dow (Botswana) -- Tell me a lie / Ann Kithaka (Kenya) -- Prayers and meditation heal despair / Pauline Dongala (Congo-Brazzaville) -- A Poem written in the ink of the blood shed in Rwanda, with poet's note / Nathalie Etoke (Cameroon) -- Biography of ash (excerpt) / Khadija Marouazi (Morocco) -- Women's responses to state violence in the Niger Delta / Sokari Ekine (Nigeria) -- Child soldier: fighting for my life (excerpt)/ China Keitetsi (Uganda) -- Don't get mad, get elected! A conversation with activist Wangari Maathai (Kenya) / Danielle Nierenberg, Mia MacDonald -- Musings of an African woman: excerpts from a Memoir in progress / Kuukua Dzigbordi Yomekpe (Ghana) -- A Moroccan woman in the Glocal Village: reflections on Islam, identity, and cultural legacies / Touria Khannous (Morocco) / Knowing your place / Diana Adesola Mafe (Nigeria) -- Letter to Clara / Susan Akono (Cameroon) -- "We are our grandmothers' dreams": African women envision the future / Pauline Dongala (Congo-Brazzavile), Marame Gueye (Senegal), Omotayo Jolaosho (Nigeria), Nimu Njoya (Kenya), Abena P. A. Busia (Ghana) -- Liberation / Abena P. A. Busia (Ghana).
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-325) and index.
Note:"African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women's strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically organized, it presents women's writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile."--Publisher
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