African women writing resistance: an anthology of contemporary voices

Foreword : a song in seven stanzas for our granddaughters / Abena P.A. Busia (Ghana)

African women writing resistance : an introduction / Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, with Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho, Anne Serafin

t.1 Engaging with tradition : The d ay when God changed his mind / Eve Zvichanzi Nyemba (Zimbabwe)

The old woman / J. Tsitsi Mutit (Zimbabwe)

Interview with Kaya a Mbaya (Congo), a Babongo woman / Pierre Piya-Bouanga (Congo-Brazzaville)

Interview with Elisabeth Bouanga (Congo-Brazzaville) : remembrance of things past / Pauline Dongala (Congo-Brazzaville)

Pt.2 Speaking out : young women on sexuality : Sibongile Mtungwa (South Africa)

Letters to my cousin / Catherine Makoni (Zimbabwe)

Story of faith / Mamle Kabu (Ghana)

Lovesung for a father, with poet's note / Zindzi Bedu (Nigeria)

It's not rape if... / Ann Kithaka (Kenya)

To be or not to be a lesbian : the dilemma of Cameroon's women soccer players / Sybille Ngo Nyeck (Cameroon)

My name is Kasha / Kasha N. Jacqueline (Uganda)

Cosmo Africa and other poems / Cheshe Dow (Botswana)

Pt.3 Challenging the institution of marriage : Child / Ann Kithaka (Kenya)

Hailstones on Zamfara / Sefi Atta (Nigeria)

The good woman / Patricia Chogugudza (Zimbabwe)

Ngomwa / Ellen Mulenga Banda-Aaku (Zambia)

They came in the morning / Iheoma Obibi (Nigeria)

The battle of the worlds : oratory as women's tool of resistance to the challenges of polygamy in contemporary Wolof society / Marame Gueye (Senegal)

Pt.4 Focusing on survival : women's health issues : Tell me why : two poems / Ann Kithaka (Kenya)

Surviving me / Janine Lewis (South Africa)

The struggle to end the practice of female genital mutilation / Nawal el Saadwai (Egypt)

Slow poison / Makuchi (Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi) (Cameroon)

Just keep talking : two poems / Cheshe Dow (Botswana)

Tell me a lie / nn Kithaka (Kenya)

Prayers and meditation heal despair / Pauline Dongala (Congo-Brazzaville)

Pt.5 Taking a stand : women as activists against war, environmental degradation, and social conflict : A poem written in the ink of the blood shed in Rwanda, with poet's note / Nathalie Etoke ́(Cameroon)

Excerpt from Biography of ash / Khadija Marouazi (Morocco)

Women's responses to state violence in the Niger Delta / Sokari Ekine (Nigeria)

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Child soldier : fighting for my life / China Keitetsi (Uganda)

Don't get mad, get elected! A conversation with activist Wangari Maathai (Kenya) / Danielle Nierenberg, Mia MacDonald

Pt.6 Writing from a different place : perspectives on exile and diaspora : Musings of an African woman : excerpts from a memoir in progress / Kuukua Dzigbordi Yomekpe (Ghana)

A Moroccan woman in the Glocal village : reflections on Islam, identity, and cultural legacies / Touria Khannous (Morocco)

Knowing your place / Diana Adesola Mafe (Nigeria)

Letter to Clara / Susan Akono (Cameroon)

Pt.7 Standing at the edge of time : African women's visions of the past, present, and future : "We are our grandmothers' dreams" : African women envision the future / Pauline Dongala (Congo-Brazzaville), Marame Gueye (Senegal), Omotayo Jolaosho (Nigeria), Nimu Njoya (Kenya), Abena P.A. Busia (Ghana)

Liberation / Abena P.A. Busia (Ghana).