Unwinding Threads Writing by Women in Africa

This popular anthology contains short stories and extracts from novels by women all over Africa. The pioneer West Africans write to arouse national pride for their countries' independence. Southern African activists raise their voices against political and economic repression and racism. Northern African women seek to lift their veils to emerge from the enforced domesticity and female servitude. The experience, the goal, the language, the audience, differ from one writer to another. However, all their works affirm, as Doris Lessing wrote: "that filter which is a woman's way of looking at life has the same validity as that filter which is a man's way." Contributors: Mabel Dove Danquah; Adelaide Casely Hayford; Efua Sutherland; Ama Ata Aidoo; Mariama Ba; Flora Nwapa; Buchi Emecheta; Martha Mvungi; Barbara Kimenye; Charity Waciuma; Hazel Mugot; Grace Ogot; Olive Schreiner; Doris Lessing; Nadine Gordimer; Miriam Tlali; Amelia House; Bessie Head; Fadhma Amrouche; Marguerite Amrouche; Assia Djebar; Alifa Rifaat; Latifa el-Zayat; Andree Chedid.Bruner, Charlotte is the author of 'Unwinding Threads Writing by Women in Africa', published 1994 under ISBN 9780435909895 and ISBN 0435909894.