Daughters of Africa

An international anthology of words and writings by women of African descent — from the ancient oral tradition to the present. A monumental literary enterprise, it is the most inclusive anthology ever attempted of oral and written literature — in every conceivable genre — by women of African descent the world over. (Pantheon)

List of Contributors Continued:

Dorothy West, Carolina Maria de Jesus, Ellen Kuzwayo, Billie Holiday, Claudia Jones, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Caroline Ntseliseng Khaketla, Aída Cartagena Portalatín, Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley, Alice Childress

• Author
• Margaret Busby, Hatshepsut, Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Mary Prince, Zilpha Elaw, Sojourner Truth, Nancy Gardner Prince, Makeda, Maria W. Stewart, Mary Seacole, Harriet E. Wilson, Mwana Kupona, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Ann Plato, Henrietta Fullor, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Lucy Delaney, Anonymous, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Bethany Veney, Mattie J. Jackson, Susie King Taylor, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Sarah A. Allen, Anna Julia Cooper, Annie L. Burton, Kate Drumgoold, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, Adelaide Casely-Hayford, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Baba, Angelina Weld Grimké, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Anne Spencer, Else Johnson McDougald, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Amy Jacques Garvey, Marita Bonner, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Gladys May Casely-Hayford, Aquah Laluah, Una Marson, Mabel Dove-Danquah, Virginia Brindis de Salas, Ann Petry, Pauli Murray, Old Elizabeth

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 1093

• Publisher
• Ballantine Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780345382689

• Genres
• africa, fiction, anthologies, feminism, womens, essays, poetry

• Release date
• 1994