1992 Daughters of Africa
Opal Palmer Adisa
Abena Adomako
Ama Ata Aidoo
Grace Akello
Zaynab Alkali
Ifi Amadiume
Maya Angelou
Red Jordan Arobateau
Iola Ashundie
Mariama Bâ
Baba
Toni Cade Bambara
Valerie Belgrave
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Louise Bennett
Julia Berger
Eulalia Bernard
Ayse Bircan
Becky Birtha
Valerie Bloom
Marita Bonner
Dionne Brand
Jean Binta Breeze
Virginia Brindis de Salas
Erna Brodber
Gwendolyn Brooks
Barbara Burford
Annie L. Burton
Abena P.A. Busia
Dinah Anuli Butler
Octavia E. Butler
Joan Cambridge
Aída Cartagena Portalatín
Adelaide Casely-Hayford
Gladys Casely-Hayford
Marie Chauvet
Alice Childress
Michelle Cliff
Lucille Clifton
Merle Collins
Maryse Condé
Anna Julia Cooper
J. California Cooper
Jayne Cortez
Christine Craig
Jane Tapsubei Creider
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Angela Y. Davis
Thadious M. Davis
Lucy Delaney
Noémia de Sousa
Nafissatou Diallo
Rita Dove
Mabel Dove-Danquah
Kate Drumgoold
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Zee Edgell
Angelika Einsenbrandt
Zilpha Elaw
Elizabeth
Buchi Emecheta
Alda do Espirito Santo
Mari Evans
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Charlotte Forten Grimké
Aline França
Henrietta Fuller
Amy Jacques Garvey
Beryl Gilroy
Nikki Giovanni
Vivian Glover
Marita Golden
Jewelle Gomez
Pilar López Gonzales
Lorna Goodison
Serena Gordon
Hattie Gossett
Angelika Weld Grimké
Rosa Guy
Lorraine Hansberry
Frances E. W. Harper
Hatshepsut
Iyamide Hazeley
Bessie Head
Georgina Herrera
Saida Herzi
Merle Hodge
Billie Holiday
Bell Hooks
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Amelia Blossom House
Gloria T. Hull
Marsha Hunt
Kristin Hunter
Zora Neale Hurston
Noni Jabavu
Mattie J. Jackson
Harriet Jacobs
Carolina Maria de Jesus
Alice Perry Johnson
Amryl Johnson
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Claudia Jones
Gayl Jones
Marion Patrick Jones
June Jordan
Jackie Kay
Kebbedseh
Caroline Ntseliseng Khaketla
Yelena Khanga
Jamaica Kincaid
Mwana Kupona
Ellen Kuzwayo
Alda Lara
Nella Larsen
Andrea Lee
Audre Lorde
Elise Johnson McDougald
Terry McMillan
Naomi Long Madgett
Lina Magaia
Barbara Makhalisa
Zindzi Mandela
Paule Marshall
Una Marson
Annette M’baye
Pauline Melville
Louise Meriwether
Gcina Mhlope
Mary Monroe
Anne Moody
Pamela Mordecai
Nancy Morejón
Toni Morrison
Mwana Kupona Msham
Micere Githae Mugo
Pauli Murray
Gloria Naylor
Citèkù Ndaaya
Womi Bright Neal
Lauretta Ngcobo
Grace Nichols
Nisa
Rebeka Njau
Flora Nwapa
Sekai Nzenza
Grace Ogot
Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
May Opitz
Marion Patrick Jones
Gabriela Pearse
Ann Petry
Marlene Nourbese Philip
J. J. Phillips
Ann Plato
Velma Pollard
Marsha Prescod
Mary Prince
Nancy Prince
Queen of Sheba
Christine Qunta
Joan Riley
Carolyn Rodgers
Astrid Roemer
Marta Rojas
Lucinda Roy
Jacqueline Rudet
Kristina Rungano
Sandi Russell
Sonia Sanchez
Simone Schwarz—Bart
Mary Seacole
Mabel Segun
Olive Senior
Dulcie September
Ntozake Shange
Jenneba Sie-Jalloh
Joyce Sikakane
Zulu Sofola
Aminata Sow Fall
Anne Spencer
Eintou Pearl Springer
Maria W. Stewart
Maud Sulter
Efua Sutherland
Véronique Tadjo
Susie King Taylor
Lourdes Teodoro
Mary Church Terrell
Lucy Terry
Awa Thiam
Elean Thomas
Miriam Tlali
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Adaora Lily Ulasi
Bethany Veney
Charity Waciuma
Alice Walker
Margaret Walker
Michele Wallace
Myriam Warner−Vieyra
Ida B. Wells
Dorothy West
Phillis Wheatley
Zoe Wicomb
Sherley Anne Williams
Harriet E. Wilson
Sylvia Wynter
About the Author
MARGARET BUSBY OBE, Hon. FRSL (Nana Akua Ackon) is a major cultural figure in Britain and around the world. She was born in Ghana and educated in the UK, graduating from London University. She became Britain’s youngest and first black woman publisher when she co-founded Allison & Busby in the late 1960s and published notable authors including Buchi Emecheta, Nuruddin Farah, Rosa Guy, C.L.R. James, Michael Moorcock and Jill Murphy. An editor, broadcaster and literary critic, she has also written drama for BBC radio and the stage. Her radio abridgements and dramatisations encompass work by Henry Louis Gates, Timothy Mo, Walter Mosley, Jean Rhys, Sam Selvon and Wole Soyinka, among others. She has judged numerous national and international literary competitions, and served on the boards of such organisations as the Royal Literary Fund, Wasafiri magazine and the Africa Centre. A long-time campaigner for diversity in publishing, she is the recipient of many awards, including the Henry Swanzy Award in 2015 and the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature in 2017. She lives in London.
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1.See a full listing of those who appeared in Daughters of Africa (1992) here.
2.Nana Asma’u was brought to my attention, after the publication of Daughters of Africa, by Jean Boyd, who kindly sent me her 1989 book, The Caliph’s Sister: Nana Asma’u 1793–1865: Teacher, Poet and Islamic Leader, and who translated much of this extraordinary woman’s work, published in The Collected Works of Nana Asma’u, Daughter of Usman dan Fodiyo 1793–1864 (edited by Jean Boyd and Beverly B. Mack).
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