Women writing Africa. The Eastern region / edited by Amandina Lihamba ... [et al.].

A note on the women writing Africa project/ Tuzyline Jita Allan, Abena P. A. Busia, and Florence Howe
Preface/ Austin Bukenya
Introduction/ Amandina Lihamba, Fulata L. Moyo, M.M. Mulokozi, Naomi L. Shitemi, Saida Yahya-Othman
Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Peace and security/ Sultan Fatima binti Muhammad Mkubwa
From a mother's advice, and prayer: an epic poem/ Mwana Kupona binti Msham
A royal childhood in Zanzibar/ Emily Ruete
My God, why have you forsaken me?/ Martha Thabi
Let not your heart be troubled/ Jessie Nyagondwe
Ten times a slave / Bwanikwa
Early twentieth century (1900-1935)
Face to face with Wangu Wa Makeri / E. May Crawford
Binti Ali the clever/ Anonymous
My student/ Jane Elizabeth Chadwick and Eva Chadwick
Four songs/ Siti binti Saad
Song of the coffee girls/ Communal
I want a divorce/ Luiza
Civilized motherhood/ Zeina binti Mwinyipembe Sekinyaga
A petition/ Mwana Hashima binti Sheikh
Letter opposing female circumcision/ Nyambura wa Kihurani, Raheli Wariga was Jahanna, and Alice Murigo wa Meshak
The word prostitute has confused us/ Lusi Kyebakutika
Should women be educated?/ Emily Mkandawire
Letter to the Bishop/ Mothers union members
Mid-twentieth century (1936-1969)
Fighting for my chieftaincy/ Chauwa Banda
Modern Marriages/ Princess Kaiko Nambayo
Letters on women's education/ Martha Kapanga and Mrs. E. Akapelwa Inambwae
Domestic violence/ Erusa Kibanda
Letters from Africa to a daughter in England/ Nellie Grant
Wartime in Zanzibar/ Zeyana Ali Muh'd
Letters on race and politics/ Elspeth Huxley and Margery Perham
When Ogres lived/ Miriam Wandai
An African marries a white through mere worldly desires/ C.M. binti Hassan
Fighting for widow's property and the right to refuse marriage/ Nyense Namwandu
Women are human beings/ Z and G
Two poems/ Bibi Pirira Athumani
Gidmay: farwell to a bride/ Communal
From slavery to freedom/ Mama Meli
Birds will mourn her/ Ng'washi ng'wana Nzuluge
Letter on owning land/ Zaynab Himid Muhamed
Debate on higher education/ Florence Lubega
On education/ Joyce Masembe Mpanga
Praised be Jesus Christ: a letter/ Anonymous
The princess of politics/ Princess Nakatindi
Letter on seclusion/ S. Nyakire
An unusual girlhood/ Genda Mislay Lohi
The truth will always speak/ Rose Chibambo
What we have in common/ Susan Buxton Wood
The advancement of women/ Barbro Johansson
Africans are not poor/ Lucy Lameck
Sacrifices for change/ Bibi Titi Mohamed
Model day during the emergency/ Hannah Kahiga
Late twentieth century (1970-1995)
Pray, no revenge/ Grace Akello
The mischievous cow/ Mirimam K. Were
A barmaid's life/ Anna Chipaka
Two satirical poems/ Fatma binti Athman
From Hush, my child hush, of onions and frankincense/ Zaynab Himid Mohammed
Speech on international women's day/ Miria Obote
The language of healers/ Queen Namunyala
Creating in the mother-tongue/ Penina Muhando Mlama
Fighting for what belonged to me/ Tsitsi V. Himunyanga-Phiri
We want to be sisters/ Sister Mary John
Learning the sex trade/ Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
Warrior women/ Field Marshal Muthoni-Kirima
Tryst with peril/ Elieshi Lema
Let us praise phoebe, our MP/ Grace Awach
Life and death/ Margaret A. Ogola
Nakayima and the wonder tree/ Ester Nakate
Every woman a child of God, Malawi/ Janet Karim
Memories of a Zanzibar wedding/ Zehra Perra
Into the twenty-first century (1996-2004)
One blanket, Uganda/ Communal
Songs complaining about husbands and lovers
The impotent one climbed a tree/ Langi Women of Odokomit
The greedy husband/ S.C. Hara
Three Visekese songs/ Women of Rumphi district
Make love and not babies/ Loise Kalondu wa Maseki
The irresponsible husband/ Njira Chenga
Vimbuza songs/ Communal
Berjing, Beijing/ Monde Sifuniso
The wasting disease/ Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
I am tired of talking in metaphors/ Susan Kiguli
Independence, 1962/ Winnie Munyarugerero
Two poems/ Vuyo Ophelia Wagi
The singing drum/ Mary Penelope Mfune
Seeking my husband in Kenya/ Neera Kapur-Dromson
Fighting for women's rights/ Sarah Nyendwoha Ntiro
A courageous woman/ Loise Kalondu wa Maseki
Protest against polygamy/ Loise Kalondu wa Maseki
Rwanda: in the shadow of God/ Goretti Kyomuhendo
Mekatilili, the Mijikenda warrior/ Hannah Tsumah
I want school, not marriage/ Esther Mwachombo
From slavery to school/ Charlotte Poda
Two poems/ Katherine Wanjiru Getao
Allisoo is an insult/ Qabale Kosi, Shane Halake, and Darmi Dida
Pounding songs/ Mbuyu Nalumango
Six rural protest songs
I am sitting down to write this letter/ Santa Apoto
Apoto the girl/ Beta Aida
When we say/ Lalweny Fanta
Without women/ Sarah Atoo
The monstrous disease/ Sarah Atoo
We are now equal/ Christine Lamwaka
My mother, my hero/ Esther Shadrack Mwachiru
Lullabies
Nine lullabies from Zanzibar/ Communal
Four lullabies from Uganda/ Communal
Four lullabies from Zambia/ Connumal
I must call myself a feminist/ Miria Matembe
The female husband/ Ruth Meena
Language in Tanzania/ Martha Qorro
In the stars/ Monica Arac de Nyeko
The story of WACU/ Margaret Wangui Mwema
Nobel peace prize lecture/ Wangari Maathai.