Cultural Writing. Fiction. Poetry. The first of four volumes in the Women Writing Africa Project, this landmark collection presents two centuries of texts by African women and reveals a powerful cultural legacy. Ranging from communal songs and folk tales to letters, diaries, poems, fiction, interviews, court records, and other documents, the texts offer a vivid picture of African women's lives. "Essential.This distinctive series presents one hundred-twenty southern African texts that are rich, evocative"-Library Journal. Features work by such well known writers and activists as Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer, Sindiwe Magona, and Winnie Mandela.