Description
This website hosts a digitised version of one of the earliest independent African women’s magazines: AWA: la revue de la femme noire. AWA was an independent magazine produced in Dakar, Senegal by a network of African women between 1964 and 1973. The magazine features poems, short stories, political reportage, and essays, alongside recipes, fashion, home-furnishings, and readers’ letters pages. It presents women’s lives as citizens, mothers, sisters, workers, and consumers against the global backdrop of Cold War politics, new formulations of Afro-modernity, and demands for women’s rights.
Creator
Dr Ruth Bush (University of Bristol, UK) and Dr Claire Ducournau (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)
Source
Publisher
Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire-Cheikh Anta Diop
Date
2021
Language
French, English
Coverage
1964-1973
Digital Collection or Repository Item Type Metadata
URL
Files
Collection
Media, Journalism, and Advertising
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Citation
Dr Ruth Bush (University of Bristol, UK) and Dr Claire Ducournau (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), “AWA : la revue de la femme noire,”
