Global InformationDaughters of Africa information
 UK 1st edition (hardback). Photograph by Suzanne Roden featuring Sibusiso Nozipho Mavolwane (1958–2015)[1] | |
| Editor | Margaret Busby |
|---|---|
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Anthology |
Publication date | 1992 |
| Pages | 1127 pp. |
| Followed by | New Daughters of Africa |
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present is a compilation of orature and literature by more than 200 women from Africa and the African diaspora, edited and introduced by Margaret Busby,[2] who compared the process of assembling the volume to "trying to catch a flowing river in a calabash".[3]
First published in 1992,[4] in London by Jonathan Cape (having been commissioned by Candida Lacey,[5] formerly of Pandora Press and later publisher of Myriad Editions),[6] and in New York by Pantheon Books, Daughters of Africa is regarded as a pioneering work,[7][8] covering a variety of genres – including fiction, essays, poetry, drama, memoirs and children's writing – and more than 1000 pages in extent.[9] Arranged chronologically, beginning with traditional oral poetry,[10] it includes work translated from African languages as well as from Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.[11][12]
The anthology's title derives from an 1831 declaration by Maria W. Stewart (1803–1880), the first African-American woman to give public lectures, in which she said: "O, ye daughters of Africa, awake! awake! arise! no longer sleep nor slumber, but distinguish yourselves. Show forth to the world that ye are endowed with noble and exalted faculties."[13][a]
A companion volume called New Daughters of Africa – with the subtitle "An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent", and featuring a further 200-plus contributors from around the world born between the 1790s and the 1990s[16] – was published in 2019.[17][18] Associated with the anthology is the Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award for a woman student from Africa.[19][20]
- ^ "From Ayòbámi Adébáyò to Zadie Smith: meet the New Daughters of Africa", WebsLocal, 9 March 2019.
- ^ Tonya Bolden, "Book Review: Two Types of Revelation – Daughters of Africa", Black Enterprise, March 1993, p. 12.
- ^ "Introduction", Daughters of Africa, p. xxix.
- ^ Kinna, "Daughters of Africa edited by Margaret Busby", Kinna Reads, 24 September 2010.
- ^ Candida Lacey, "Daughters of Africa Twenty-five years later", Wasafiri, 32(4), November 2017, pp. 7–8.
- ^ Margaret Busby, "Granddaughters of Africa", Commonwealth Writers, 19 March 2015.
- ^ Margaret Busby profile, African Writing in Britain.
- ^ "The 2015 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award Recipient: Margaret Busby, OBE" Archived 2 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine, NGC Bocas Lit Fest.
- ^ "Daughters of Africa", Goodreads.
- ^ "Anthology of black women writers printed", Journal Gazette (Mattoon, Illinois), 3 December 1992, p. 19.
- ^ "50 Books by African Women that Everyone Should Read", What's_On Africa, Royal African Society, 30 June 2014.
- ^ Meserette Kentake, "Daughters of Africa", Kentake Page, 17 December 2013.
- ^ Maria W. Stewart (ed. Marilyn Richardson), "Religion And The Pure Principles of Morality, The Sure Foundation On Which We Must Build", in America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches, Indiana University Press, 1987, p. 30.
- ^ "Nokutela (nee Mdima) Dube". South Africa History Online. 26 October 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ^ Meghan Healy-Clancy, "The Daughters of Africa and Transatlantic Racial Kinship: C. L. Tshabalala and the Women's Club Movement, 1912–1943", Amerikastudien/American Studies 59, no. 4 (2014): 481–499.
- ^ Tom Odhiambo (20 January 2020). "Entertainment: 'New Daughters of Africa' is a must read for aspiring young women writers". Kenyan Digest. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
- ^ New Daughters of Africa page at Myriad Editions.
- ^ Ellen Mitchell and Sophie Kulik, "Q&A: Margaret Busby on ‘New Daughters of Africa’", Africa In Words, 29 June 2019.
- ^ "The Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award". SOAS University of London. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2021-03-07.
- ^ "SOAS University of London | The Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award".
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