La parole aux negresses (Speak out, Black Sisters) : Feminism and Oppression in Black Africa by Senegalese anthropologist Awa Thiam, a pioneering work of African Black feminism. This essay shows the importance of African women speaking out in order to make the realities of their experiences heard and detect their woes. By inciting her African sisters to be aware of their condition, the author lifts the ban and expresses her feminism that she places in the African context and which is largely influenced by Black feminism. Published in 1978, Speak out, Black Sisters generates new ideas and opens up prospects for black women’s liberation. It asks key questions about the future of feminism in Africa while its retro-reading revisits the African and global context of its publication, as well as other African feminist and black American texts.

Awa Thiam, born in Senegal in April 1950, is a Senegalese writer, anthropologist and feminist political figure. She is the author of La Parole aux Négresses, published in 1978 and the first African text in which practices such as polygamy, dowry or genital mutilation are openly denounced.

Good to know :

• first edition published in 1983 by Denoël/Gonthier Editions

• 208 pages - Text in French

• overall very good condition except a stain at back of the cover