Margaret Busby

Margaret Busby, OBE, is a major cultural figure around the world. She was born in Ghana and educated in the UK and was Britain’s youngest and first black woman publisher when she co-founded Allison & Busby in the late 1960s.

An editor, broadcaster and literary critic, she has also written drama for BBC radio and the stage. She has judged numerous national and international literary competitions, and served on the boards of such organisations as the Royal Literary Fund, Wasafiri magazine and The Africa Centre. She lives in London.

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New Daughters of Africa

Custom, tradition, friendships, sisterhood, romance, sexuality, intersectional feminism, the politics of gender, race, and identity— all and more are explored in this glorious collection of work from over 200 writers. New Daughters of Africa spans a wealth of genres—autobiography, memoir, oral history, letters, diaries, short stories, novels, poetry, drama, humour, politics, journalism, essays and speeches—to demonstrate the diversity and remarkable literary achievements of black women.

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