Just As I Am: A Memoir by Cicely Tyson and Michelle Burford
“I am not one to feel as if I have arrived, for even at age ninety-six, I am still arriving.” (Page 175) Last year I made a decision to...
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Rutendo Chichaya
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Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
“What I have realized since is that those moments of feeling alive are part of a continuum. You find that moment. You bask in it. Then as...
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Elizabeth Musodzi and the Birth of African Feminism in Early Colonial Zimbabwe by Tsuneo Yoshikuni
Here is a story of a woman who refused to be confined to her home to play out the traditional script of a woman belonging to the kitchen ...
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Not My Time To Die by Yolande Mukagasana
‘Not My Time To Die’ is a memoir by Yolande Mukagasana, a Rwandan nurse who retells her truth about the 1994 genocide. In this book she ...
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A Review of Ellen Kuzwayo’s Call Me Woman
The book is divided into three parts (Soweto, My Road To Soweto, Patterns Behind the Struggle) and eighteen chapters.
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Thoughts on Unbowed: A Memoir by Wangari Muta Maathai
Unbowed is a biography of Wangari Muta Maathai, an honest read of one woman’s experience of life. Wangari was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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Thoughts on I Put A Spell On You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone with Stephen Cleary
This is the story of Nina Simone the Freedom Singer who refused to be shoved into boxes such as jazz, pop, classical, folk or blues.
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