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New Daughters of Africa
  • Published: 25 August 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241997017
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 976

New Daughters of Africa

An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African descent

  • Various Authors
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A landmark contemporary collection celebrating the work of 200 women writers of African descent

Three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of contemporary writing by 200 women writers of African descent, including Zadie Smith, Bernardine Evaristo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

A glorious portrayal of the richness and range of African women's voices, this major international book brings together their achievements across a wealth of genres. From Antigua to Zimbabwe and Angola to the USA, overlooked artists of the past join key figures, popular contemporaries and emerging writers in paying tribute to the heritage that unites them, the strong links that endure from generation to generation, and their common obstacles around issues of race, gender and class.

Bold and insightful, brilliant in its intimacy and universality, this landmark anthology honours the talents of African daughters and the inspiring legacy that connects them-and all of us.
  • Published: 25 August 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241997017
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 976
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Praise for New Daughters of Africa

New Daughters of Africa is a beautiful, essential anthology. It is both long-awaited and urgently needed; it recognises the individual voices and interwoven histories of every facet of womanhood

Preti Taneja

Busby opens the door wide and allows her readers to witness the conversations that have occurred between black women writers, conversations about culture, love, inheritance and more, without mediation from the powerful institutions of publishing and academia. The effect is marvellous. It is also necessary

Imani Perry, Financial Times

New Daughters of Africa is indispensable because African voices have been silenced or diminished throughout history, and women's voices even more so

The Irish Times

This remarkable book constitutes a powerful affirmation of literary achievement, demonstrating that contemporary black women writers are part of a vital and extensive tradition

Times Literary Supplement

An incredible introduction to black women's writing from around the world

Bernardine Evaristo

A seminal, international anthology . . . a selection of Africa’s most compelling voices – poets, storytellers, rhetoricians – all commenting, critiquing and fantasising about a world opening its doors to let us in

Daily Maverick