| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxxi, 477 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The Women writing Africa project ; v. 2 |
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Women writing Africa project ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-83) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- |
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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 -- African 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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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. |
| Subject |
West African literature -- Women authors.
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Folk literature, African.
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Oral tradition -- Africa, West.
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Women -- Africa, West -- Literary collections.
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Women -- Africa, West -- History -- Sources.
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Africa, West -- Literary collections.
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Africa, West -- History -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Sutherland-Addy, Esi.
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Diaw, Aminata.
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| ISBN |
1558615016 cloth |
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9781558615014 cloth |
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1558615008 paper |
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9781558615007 paper |
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