Author: Aissata G. Sidikou
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253356709
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Aissata G. Sidikou and Thomas A. Hale reveal the world of women's songs and singing in West Africa. This anthology—collected from 17 ethnic traditions across West Africa—introduces the power and beauty of the intimate expressions of African women. The songs, many translated here for the first time, reflect all stages of the life cycle and all walks of life. They entertain, give comfort and encouragement, and empower other women to face the challenges imposed on them by their families, men, and society. Women's Voices from West Africa opens a new window on women's changing roles in contemporary Africa.
Women's Voices from West Africa
Author: Aissata G. Sidikou
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253356709
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Aissata G. Sidikou and Thomas A. Hale reveal the world of women's songs and singing in West Africa. This anthology—collected from 17 ethnic traditions across West Africa—introduces the power and beauty of the intimate expressions of African women. The songs, many translated here for the first time, reflect all stages of the life cycle and all walks of life. They entertain, give comfort and encouragement, and empower other women to face the challenges imposed on them by their families, men, and society. Women's Voices from West Africa opens a new window on women's changing roles in contemporary Africa.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253356709
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Aissata G. Sidikou and Thomas A. Hale reveal the world of women's songs and singing in West Africa. This anthology—collected from 17 ethnic traditions across West Africa—introduces the power and beauty of the intimate expressions of African women. The songs, many translated here for the first time, reflect all stages of the life cycle and all walks of life. They entertain, give comfort and encouragement, and empower other women to face the challenges imposed on them by their families, men, and society. Women's Voices from West Africa opens a new window on women's changing roles in contemporary Africa.
A Room of Their Own
Author: Twinkle Suri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Voices of African Women
Author: Johanna Bond
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Voices of African Women is a collection of essays by accomplished women's rights lawyers from Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania. In the last decade, women's human rights have been the focus of significant attention at the international level. There remains, however, a dearth of information concerning the application and relevance of international norms at grassroots levels within Africa. There are few works about women's human rights within Africa that are actually written by African women lawyers and human rights activists. This book offers a glimpse into the lives of women in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania; it describes -- in their own words -- the challenges these activists face in implementing international human rights norms at the local and national levels. "The contributors are a unique set of talented analysts... Introductions for each chapter are by Johanna Bond, whose precise summaries and analyses of the topics systematize what would otherwise be repetitive evidence found in similar circumstances in these African countries. Summing Up: Recommended." -- CHOICE Magazine, November 2005 "The book is well worth space on...professionals' bookshelves." -- African Studies Association, 2006 "The book is useful and essential reading for anyone interested in women's rights in Africa. This has to be the most detailed and up-to-date book on women's rights in this region." -- Modern African Studies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Voices of African Women is a collection of essays by accomplished women's rights lawyers from Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania. In the last decade, women's human rights have been the focus of significant attention at the international level. There remains, however, a dearth of information concerning the application and relevance of international norms at grassroots levels within Africa. There are few works about women's human rights within Africa that are actually written by African women lawyers and human rights activists. This book offers a glimpse into the lives of women in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania; it describes -- in their own words -- the challenges these activists face in implementing international human rights norms at the local and national levels. "The contributors are a unique set of talented analysts... Introductions for each chapter are by Johanna Bond, whose precise summaries and analyses of the topics systematize what would otherwise be repetitive evidence found in similar circumstances in these African countries. Summing Up: Recommended." -- CHOICE Magazine, November 2005 "The book is well worth space on...professionals' bookshelves." -- African Studies Association, 2006 "The book is useful and essential reading for anyone interested in women's rights in Africa. This has to be the most detailed and up-to-date book on women's rights in this region." -- Modern African Studies
Women's Voices in a Man's World
Author: Lidwien Kapteijns
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
By gathering Somali oral texts, sayings, and songs of the period 1899 the author has examined in what way women and gender relations in Somali society has been presented in the past and how concepts as 'tradition', authentic cultural heritage and identity affect women and gender relations nowadays.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
By gathering Somali oral texts, sayings, and songs of the period 1899 the author has examined in what way women and gender relations in Somali society has been presented in the past and how concepts as 'tradition', authentic cultural heritage and identity affect women and gender relations nowadays.
Sephardic Women's Voices
Author: Nina B. Lichtenstein
Publisher: Gaon Web
ISBN: 9781935604884
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Sephardic women's writings present invaluable information about the marginalization and silencing of the Jewish experience in North Africa and France. These stories offer testaments of human experience that belongs in the diverse and hybrid collection of post-colonial stories of displaced peoples.
Publisher: Gaon Web
ISBN: 9781935604884
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Sephardic women's writings present invaluable information about the marginalization and silencing of the Jewish experience in North Africa and France. These stories offer testaments of human experience that belongs in the diverse and hybrid collection of post-colonial stories of displaced peoples.
Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana
Author: James M. Burns
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754664956
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
James Burns provides a detailed ethnography of a group of female musicians from the Dzigbordi community dance-drumming club from the rural town of Dzodze, located in South-Eastern Ghana. Dzigbordi is part of a genre known as adekede, or female songs of redress, where women musicians critique gender relations in society. Burns uses audio and video interviews, recordings of rehearsals and performances and detailed collaborative analyses of song texts, dance routines and performance practice to address important methodological shifts in ethnomusicology that outline a more humanistic perspective of music cultures. The book will appeal to those interested in African Studies, Gender Studies and Oral Literature, as well as ethnomusicology and includes a DVD documentary.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754664956
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
James Burns provides a detailed ethnography of a group of female musicians from the Dzigbordi community dance-drumming club from the rural town of Dzodze, located in South-Eastern Ghana. Dzigbordi is part of a genre known as adekede, or female songs of redress, where women musicians critique gender relations in society. Burns uses audio and video interviews, recordings of rehearsals and performances and detailed collaborative analyses of song texts, dance routines and performance practice to address important methodological shifts in ethnomusicology that outline a more humanistic perspective of music cultures. The book will appeal to those interested in African Studies, Gender Studies and Oral Literature, as well as ethnomusicology and includes a DVD documentary.
African Women's Voices
African Women's Voices
Author: Gertrude Fester
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women authors, Black
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women authors, Black
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
African Women Writing Resistance
Author: Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299236633
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women’s strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically organized, it presents women’s writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile. Contributors include internationally recognized authors and activists such as Wangari Maathai and Nawal El Saadawi, as well as a host of vibrant new voices from all over the African continent and from the African diaspora. Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection provides an excellent introduction to contemporary African women’s literature and highlights social issues that are particular to Africa but are also of worldwide concern. It is an essential reference for students of African studies, world literature, anthropology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and women’s studies. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book Outstanding Book, selected by the Public Library Association Best Books for High Schools, Best Books for Special Interests, and Best Books for Professional Use, selected by the American Association of School Libraries
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299236633
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women’s strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically organized, it presents women’s writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile. Contributors include internationally recognized authors and activists such as Wangari Maathai and Nawal El Saadawi, as well as a host of vibrant new voices from all over the African continent and from the African diaspora. Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection provides an excellent introduction to contemporary African women’s literature and highlights social issues that are particular to Africa but are also of worldwide concern. It is an essential reference for students of African studies, world literature, anthropology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and women’s studies. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book Outstanding Book, selected by the Public Library Association Best Books for High Schools, Best Books for Special Interests, and Best Books for Professional Use, selected by the American Association of School Libraries
In Their Own Voices
Author: Adeola James
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
ISBN: 9780852555071
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Interviews with a selection of African women writers. This book makes a strong and compelling statement about the position of women writers and women in contemporary Africa using the words of the writers themselves', says Dennis Duerden, the author of the earlier African WritersTalking.
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
ISBN: 9780852555071
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Interviews with a selection of African women writers. This book makes a strong and compelling statement about the position of women writers and women in contemporary Africa using the words of the writers themselves', says Dennis Duerden, the author of the earlier African WritersTalking.