Women writing Africa. West Africa and the Sahel

Women writing Africa. West Africa and the Sahel / edited by Esi Sutherland-Addy and Aminata Diaw.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sutherland-Addy, Esi, Diaw, Aminata
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Women writing Africa project ; v. 2
Subjects:
West African literature > Women authors.
Folk literature, African.
Oral tradition > Africa, West.
Women > Africa, West > Literary collections.
Women > Africa, West > History > Sources.
Africa, West > Literary collections.
Africa, West > History > Sources.
Table of Contents:
  • Ritual and ceremonial words
  • Thirteenth century to 1916: the age of African empires
  • Lullabies and songs of young women
  • Work songs
  • The 1970s and 1980s: negotiating new social identities
  • Songs and tales of social negotiation
  • The 1990s and the new century.
  • 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
  • Anit-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.

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