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Under the Udala Trees – Review

• August 10, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Posted in african literature, african women, books
Tags: african literature, African Reading Challenge, book reviews, chinelo okparanta, nigerian literature, under the udala trees

African Reading Challenge 2016

• June 17, 2016 • 7 Comments

Posted in african literature, african women, books
Tags: African Reading Challenge, tichaona chinyelu

Those Bones Are Not My Child ~ Toni Cade Bambara (excerpt)

• March 16, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in african literature, african women, books, women, writers
Tags: those bones are not my child, toni cade bambara, women's history month

Miriam Makeba’s Letter to Time Magazine (1960)

• January 17, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in african women, non-fiction, Quotes, writing
Tags: African naming traditions, Miriam Makeba, ready for revolution: the life and struggle of stokely carmichael: kwame ture

Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle (Excerpt)

• December 4, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in african women, black women, books, politics, reading
Tags: assata shakur, black panther party, revolutionary women, safiya bukhari, want to start a revolution?

Mothers of the Revolution (Saying Yes)

• May 9, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in african women, black women, books, family, feminism, poetry, poets, women, writers
Tags: john f kennedy, malcolm x, maturity, mothers of the revolution, oppression, sankara, tupac, writing, zimbabwe

Contraband Marriage

• March 17, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in african literature, african women, black women, books, family, feminism, literature, motherhood, poetry, reading, tichaona chinyelu, women
Tags: books, incarceration, love, love stories, marriage, motherhood, poetry, the prisoner's wife