Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the PresentMargaret Busby Jonathan Cape, 1992 - 1089 páginas Arranged chronologically, this anthology of writing spans from the Ancient Queen Hatshepsut and the Queen of Sheba, to popular contemporaries such as Maya Angelou, Alice Walker and Buchi Emecheto, and includes many lesser known writers and anonymous traditional works that exemplify the oral tradition handed down through the generations. This anthology brings together women from across the globe and besides translations from African languages it includes work originally written in Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. |
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... carried by the bunch in large white wooden trays . Garden eggs , tomatoes , red oil - palm nuts warmed by the sun ... carrying colourful mats , baskets and toys which they them- selves had made . The Queen Mother watched the procession ...
... carried by the bunch in large white wooden trays . Garden eggs , tomatoes , red oil - palm nuts warmed by the sun ... carrying colourful mats , baskets and toys which they them- selves had made . The Queen Mother watched the procession ...
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... carrying the umbrella and the walking stick , always mumbling to himself . To them , it was fun to watch him as they ... carried on your head to and from the white suburbs day after day , week after week , month after month . And now all ...
... carrying the umbrella and the walking stick , always mumbling to himself . To them , it was fun to watch him as they ... carried on your head to and from the white suburbs day after day , week after week , month after month . And now all ...
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... carried on the head.5 The decoration of the masks was done in secret . This was the responsibility of a particular patrilineage in Umuona where the title nwunye nonu , wife nonu , was taken . Even though this title was held by a man ...
... carried on the head.5 The decoration of the masks was done in secret . This was the responsibility of a particular patrilineage in Umuona where the title nwunye nonu , wife nonu , was taken . Even though this title was held by a man ...
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Acknowledgements | xxvii |
MARIA W STEWART | xxix |
YELENA KHANGA | xxx |
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Términos y frases comunes
Africa African-American ain't AJALA Alice Walker American asked Aunt baby beautiful Bellmont Black Women brother called Caribbean child CLARA clothes colored dance dark daughter door DR SOTUBO dress eyes face father feel friends Fumane Ghana girl give grandmother Guyana hair hand Harlem Renaissance Hatshepsut head hear heard heart husband Jamaica knew laugh Lauretta Ngcobo leave live look Lord Mama marriage married Maud Martha morning mother Nella Larsen never nigger night Nnaife Nnu Ego Nukha Oganda Phillis Wheatley poems polygamy race sing sister sitting slave slavery smile Soha song South Africa stood story street talk tell things thought Thutmose II told took trees turned voice waiting walked wife woman Women Writers words writing young