African Women:

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African Women

• Colonized bodies,
• empowered voices

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1982
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Africa

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• Thus she had lain/ sugercane sweet/ deserts her
  hair/ golden her feet/ mountains her breasts/ two
  Niles her tears./ Thus she has lain/ Black
  through the years.
• Over the white seas/ rime white and cold/
  brigands ungentled/ icicle bold/ took her young
  daughters/ sold her strong sons/ churched her
  with Jesus/ bled her with guns./ Thus she has
  lain.  
• Now she is rising/ remember her pain/ remember
  the losses/ her screams loud and vain/ remember
  her riches/ her history slain/ now she is
  striding/ although she has lain.
• -- Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou

• BORN Marguerite Johnson,
• April 4, 1928, St. Louis, Missouri
• EDUCATION Attended public school in Stamps,
  Arkansas and San Francisco, California
• 1970 Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Algeria
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Imagining the harem
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Cecil Rhodes
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Rhodesia gt Zimbabwe (1980)
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African writer and director Tsitsi
African writer and director Tsitsi Dangarembga
was born in Mutoko in colonial Rhodesia, but at
the age of two she moved with her parents to
England. She returned to her homeland in 1980
just before it became Zimbabwe under
black-majority rule. Wrote Nervous Conditions
London, 1988
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Other African Women Writers

• Flora Nwapa (Nigeria) Efuru
• Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria) Second Class Citizen,
  The Joys of Motherhood
• Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) The
  Conservationist
• Juliana Makuchi (Cameroon) Your madness, not mine
• "I am interested in looking at the people who
  were forgotten -- especially the women and
  children, and how they empower themselves." --
  J. Makuchi