Three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of contemporary writing by 200 women writers of African descent, including Zadie Smith, Bernardine Evaristo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
A glorious portrayal of the richness and range of African women's voices, this major international book brings together their achievements across a wealth of genres. From Antigua to Zimbabwe and Angola to the USA, overlooked artists of the past join key figures, popular contemporaries and emerging writers in paying tribute to the heritage that unites them, the strong links that endure from generation to generation, and their common obstacles around issues of race, gender and class.
Bold and insightful, brilliant in its intimacy and universality, this landmark anthology honours the talents of African daughters and the inspiring legacy that connects them-and all of us.
The New Daughters of Africa
Diane Abbott
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Leila Aboulela
Ayobami Adebayo
Sade Adeniran
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Zoe Adjonyoh
Patience Agbabi
Agnes Agboton
Candace Allen
Lisa Allen-Agostini
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
Andaiye
Harriet Anena
Joan Anim-Addo
Monica Arac de Nyeko
Yemisi Aribisala
Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro
Amma Asante
Michelle Asantewa
Nana Asma'u
Sefi Atta
Ayesha Harruna Attah
Gabeba Baderoon
Yaba Badoe
Yvonne Bailey-Smith
Doreen Baingana
Ellen Banda-Aaku
Angela Barry
Mildred K. Barya
Jackee Budesta Batanda
Simi Bedford
Linda Bellos
Jay Bernard
Marion Bethel
Ama Biney
Jacqueline Bishop
Malorie Blackman
Tanella Boni
Malika Booker
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Beverley Bryan
Akosua Busia
Candice Carty-Williams
Rutendo Chabikwa
Barbara Chase-Riboud
Panashe Chigumadzi
Gabrielle Civil
Maxine Beneba Clarke
Angela Cobbinah
Carolyn Cooper
Juanita Cox
Meta Davis Cumberbatch
Patricia Cumper
Stella Dadzie
Yrsa Daley-Ward
Nana-Ama Danquah
Edwidge Danticat
Nadia Davids
Tjawangwa Dema
Yvonne Denis Rosario
Anni Domingo
Nah Dove
Edwige-Renee Dro
Camille T. Dungy
Anais Duplan
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Aida Edemariam
Esi Edugyan
Summer Edward
Yvvette Edwards
Zena Edwards
Safia Elhillo
Zetta Elliott
Nawal El Saadawi
Diana Evans
Bernardine Evaristo
Eve L. Ewing
Deise Faria Nunes
Diana Ferrus
Nikky Finney
Aminatta Forna
Ifeona Fulani
Vangile Gantsho
Roxane Gay
Danielle Legros Georges
Patricia Glinton-Meicholas
Hawa Jande Golakai
Wangui wa Goro
Bonnie Greer
Jane Ulysses Grell
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Carmen Harris
zakia henderson-brown
Joanne C. Hillhouse
Afua Hirsch
Zita Holbourne
Nalo Hopkinson
Rashidah Ismaili
Naomi Jackson
Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Delia Jarrett-Macauley
Margo Jefferson
Barbara Jenkins
Catherine Johnson
Ethel Irene Kabwato
Elizabeth Keckley
Fatimah Kelleher
Donika Kelly
Adrienne Kennedy
Susan Nalugwa Kiguli
Rosamond S. King
Donu Kogbara
Lauri Kubuitsile
Goretti Kyomuhendo
Beatrice Lamwaka
Patrice Lawrence
Andrea Levy
Lesley Lokko
Karen Lord
Karen Ladipo Manyika
Ros Martin
Lebogang Mashile
Isabella Matambanadzo
NomaVenda Mathiane
Imbolo Mbue
Maaza Mengiste
Arthenia Bates Millican
Bridget Minamore
Nadifa Mohamed
Natalia Molebatsi
Wame Molefhe
Aja Monet
Sisonke Msimang
Blessing Musariri
Glaydah Namukasa
Marie NDiaye
Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
Wanjiku wa Ngugi
Ketty Nivyabandi
Elizabeth Nunez
Selina Nwulu
Trifonia Melibea Obono
Nana Oforiatta Ayim
Irenosen Okojie
Nnedi Okorafor
Juliane Okot Bitek
Chinelo Okparanta
Yewande Omotoso
Makena Onjerika
Chibundu Onuzo
Tess Onwueme
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Louisa Adjoa Parker
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
Alake Pilgrim
Winsome Pinnock
Hannah Azieb Pool
Olumide Popo?la
Claudia Rankine
H. Cordelia Ray
Sarah Parker Remond
Florida Ruffin Ridley
Zandria F. Robinson
Zuleica Romay Guerra
Andrea Rosario-Gborie
Leone Ross
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Minna Salami
Marina Salandy-Brown
Sapphire
Noo Saro-Wiwa
Taiye Selasi
Namwali Serpell
Kadija Sesay
Claire Shepherd
Verene A. Shepherd
Warsan Shire
Lola Shoneyin
Dorothea Smartt
Zadie Smith
Adeola Solanke
Celia Sorhaindo
Attillah Springer
Andrea Stuart
SuAndi
Valerie Joan Tagwira
Jennifer Teege
Jean evenet
Natasha Trethewey
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Hilda J. Twongyeirwe
Chika Unigwe
Yvonne Vera
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
Kit de Waal
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Effie Waller Smith
Rebecca Walker
Ayeta Anne Wangusa
Zukiswa Wanner
Jesmyn Ward
Verna Allette Wilkins
Charlotte Williams
Sue Woodford-Hollick
Makhosazana Xaba
Tiphanie Yanique
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Busby opens the door wide and allows her readers to witness the conversations that have occurred between black women writers, conversations about culture, love, inheritance and more, without mediation from the powerful institutions of publishing and academia. The effect is marvellous. It is also necessary -- Imani Perry * Financial Times * An incredible introduction to black women's writing from around the world -- Bernardine Evaristo This remarkable book constitutes a powerful affirmation of literary achievement, demonstrating that contemporary black women writers are part of a vital and extensive tradition * Times Literary Supplement * New Daughters of Africa is a beautiful, essential anthology. It is both long-awaited and urgently needed; it recognises the individual voices and interwoven histories of every facet of womanhood -- Preti Taneja New Daughters of Africa is indispensable because African voices have been silenced or diminished throughout history, and women's voices even more so * The Irish Times * A seminal, international anthology . . . a selection of Africa's most compelling voices - poets, storytellers, rhetoricians - all commenting, critiquing and fantasising about a world opening its doors to let us in * Daily Maverick *
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Margaret Busby CBE, Hon. FRSL (Nana Akua Ackon) is a major cultural figure around the world. Her career has spanned work as a publisher, editor, interviewer, reviewer, scriptwriter, lyricist, radio and TV presenter, activist and mentor. She has judged prestigious literary prizes, including the Booker, and served on the boards of such organisations as the Royal Literary Fund, Wasafiri magazine, Tomorrow's Warriors, and the Africa Centre in London. She has been a guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. In 2023 she was appointed President of English PEN.
She became Britain's then youngest and first Black woman publisher when she co-founded Allison & Busby in the 1960s. As A&B's editorial director for twenty years, she published an international list of more than 300 notable authors, including Sam Greenlee, James Ellroy, Michele Roberts, Roy Heath, Michael Horowitz, Buchi Emecheta, Chester Himes, Hunter S. Thompson, George Lamming, Michelangelo, and Jill Murphy.
She has edited two ground-breaking anthologies that together champion the work of more than 400 women of African descent over several centuries: the publication of Daughters of Africa (1992) changed the literary landscape; its sequel, New Daughters of Africa (2019), seeded and launched the Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award, which annually funds a woman student from Africa to study at SOAS, University of London.
Margaret Busby is also the editor of Firespitter; the Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez. She has written numerous dramatizations and radio abridgements of books by, among others, Jean Rhys, Wole Soyinka, Walter Mosely, and Henry Louis Gates. She has saved writers such as CLR James and George Lamming from obscurity by reprinting their work and introducing them to new readers. She was a founding member of Greater Access to Publishing (GAP), which campaigned for greater diversity in the publishing industry. Her reviews and obituaries for the Guardian and other newspapers and magazines have celebrated the lives and work of many international personalities.
She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and recipient of multiple honorary doctorates and awards, including the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award, the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award, the Royal Society of Literature's Benson Medal, and the Royal African Society's inaugural Africa Writes Lifetime Achievement Award.
Margaret Busby's own collected writings, Part of the Story: Writings from Half a Century, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in 2025.
