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by Margaret Busby


  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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