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New Daughters of Africa - The Podcast

By: InterKontinental
  • Summary

  • As an homage to the ground-breaking (New) Daughters of Africa anthologies compiling writing by women of African descent across centuries and continents edited by Margaret Busby, host Panashe Chigumadzi, one of the 'New Daughters' and author of Sweet Medicine and These Bones Will Rise Again will be in conversation with fellow Black women writers across continents, genres, and generations. This is a production of InterKontinental e.V. and made possible with funding by the Berlin City Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Get the books at www.interkontinental.org.
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Episodes
  • S01 Episode 04 - Ayesha Harruna Attah
    Jun 21 2022

    This time Panashe Chigumadzi is in conversation with Ghanaian-born, Senegal-based writer Ayesha Harruna Attah. She is the author of the novels "The Harmattan Rain", "Saturday's Shadows", "The Hundred Wells of Salaga", "The Deep Blue Between" and "Zainab Takes New York". In her work she explores filling the gaps that historiography has left with Black women's histories through fiction.

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    58 mins
  • S01 Episode 03 - Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
    Feb 5 2022

    This time Panashe Chigumadzi interviews the Angolan-Portuguese literary scholar, novelist and essaiyst Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. She is the author of ten books, among them Esse Cabelo that has been translated into English and published as That Hair in the US in 2018. A German translation of A Visão das Plantas under the title Im Auge der Pflanzen is forthcoming in 2022. Listen in for a lusophone perspective on Black womanhood, the craft of writing, as well as the relationship between writing and freedom.


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    48 mins
  • S01 Episode 02 - Carolyn Cooper
    Jan 16 2022

    Panashe Chigumadzi interviews Professor Emerita of Literary and Cultural Studies Carolyn Cooper, who has introduced the study of Jamaican Dancehall culture and lyrics to academia. She is the author of "Noises in the Blood" and "Sound Clash" and has been writing newspaper columns for various newspaper, e.g. the Jamaica Gleaner. Listen in on an inspiring conversation on Black womanhood, Dancehall culture and the ties between Black communities on both sides of the Atlantic.

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    53 mins

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