Book Series: Women Writing Africa

Women Writing Africa: The Northern Region, ed. by Fatima Sadiqi, Amira Nowaira, Azza El Kholy & Moha Ennaji. Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2009. See WorldCat Record.

This fourth volume in the Women Writing Africa series includes more than 100 texts (letters, poems, essays, speeches, fiction, and folktales, all translated into English) from Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, and Tunisia. See the online review from the Association for Women's Rights in Development.

The other three volumes in the series offer equally impressive collections of documents from other regions:

Women Writing Africa: The Eastern Region, ed. by Amandina Lihamba, et al. Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2007. WorldCat Record
Includes texts from Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. 

Women Writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel, ed. by Esi Sutherland-Addy and Aminata Diaw. Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2005. WorldCat Record
Includes texts from Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Conakry, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.

Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region, ed. by M.J. Daymond et al. Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2003. WorldCat Record
Includes texts from Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.