New Daughters of Africa - The Podcast

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.

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.

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.

Panashe Chigumadzi interviews the visionary publisher and editor Margaret Busby, the first Black woman to found a publishing company in the UK in the 1960s who has compiled the anthologies Daughters of Africa (1992) and New Daughters of Africa (2018). Margaret Busby shed some light on her own background, the challenges she faced in publishing and her visions. 

Host Panashe Chigumadzi, author of Sweet Medicine and These Bones Will Rise Again, introduces you to the New Daughters of Africa Podcast, an interview series with contributors to Margaret Busby's landmark international anthology of women writers of African descent.

The Podcast is produced by InterKontinental, organizers of the African Book Festival Berlin and funded by the Berlin City Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

Original theme music by Tóke

Artwork by Adrian Wilkins