Oops! We forgot to share our word of the week with you yesterday 😇😇😇

Here it is then 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿

#WordOfTheWeek #1949books #FeministLanguages

Stéphanie St-Clair ✨

Gangster, civil rights advocate, fashionista, and businesswoman.

When her rival Dutch Schultz was assassinated, she sent him a deathbed telegram, saying: "As ye sow, so shall you reap."

#1949books #InspirationFriday #StephanieStClair #MadameQueen

Dans 10 jours, la Côte d'Ivoire part aux urnes.

Nous avons lu: La pluie lave le ciel de Adrienne Yabouza, qui parle aussi d'élections, dans un pays fictif: la République des Murmures!

Pour lire notre resumé, c'est toujours et toujours sur notre Substack: bit.ly/4nXGiUy

In her latest book, Can Feminism be African?, Minna Salami speaks of Shakara Feminism 💃🏾

A feminism of audacity and disobedience. Powerful, serious, playful, sensual, authentic.

✨ What words would you add to describe Shakara feminism?

#WordOfTheWeek #ShakaraFeminism #AfricanFeminism

Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Prof. Wangari Maathai was the first woman in East Africa to earn a PhD.

#1949books #InspirationFriday #WangariMaathai #GreenBeltMovement

We came across this word, and its definition in the novel by the Martinican writer Nadia Chonville, Mon cœur bat vite (not translated into English at the moment).

Féminisme kapon is our expression of the week!

#WordOfTheWeek #FeminismeKapon #NadiaChonville #CaribbeanVoices

Ivorian – Cameroonian ! The Madre

✨ Which African woman artist today embodies that same creative freedom?

#1949books #InspirationFriday #WerewereLiking #TotalArt

Qui était Mariama Bâ au-delà de Une si longue lettre?

On a vraiment aimé se plonger dans cette biographie de la grande dame, écrite par sa fille Mame Coumba Ndiaye, elle-même autrice.

Nous savons combien les maisons d’édition sont importantes.

Notre retour sur Substack 👉🏾 bit.ly/46Lw7L8

We’ve been quiet because of the roadworks, but we are back — online. ✨

While we wait to welcome you in person again, join us here for words, books, and voices of African and Black women.

#1949books #AfricanLiterature #WomenWhoWrite

Some call it #Senegalese jollof - whatever that means. We know it as ceebu-jën or tieboudienne.

We continue our series on the women who inspire #1949books by shining our lights upon Madame Penda Mbaye.

As always, read the article: bit.ly/4kjEnI0 and don't forget to subscribe!

The next inspirational figure for @1949books.bsky.social is Paulette Nardal. Without her, would the Negritude movement have been?

Read about her in our newsletter: bit.ly/42FFNVs and don't forget to subscribe!!!

In 1949, in an act of public maternity, Marie Koré, Odette Ekra, Anne-Marie Raggi, and thousands of other women marched on the Grand Bassam prison. The first march ended in victory: the liberation of Marcelline Sibo; the second march accelerated the process of independence for the Ivory Coast.

1949 is 5 years old!!! Check out our reflections on Substack, and don’t forget to subscribe: bit.ly/3DjIh3k

We are making use of the time that roadworks are taking place in front of the library - making access difficult but not impossible - to do some renovation works too.

Can't wait to unveil!!!

#1949books #Yopougon #Literature

Thank you @bisiadjapon.bsky.social !!! Of course, we have your books!!!!

We are new here - we were elsewhere before😁, and it feels good!

We'll be posting in English and French, depending on how we feel.

As for we who are, we are @1949books.bsky.social: the library of women's writings from Africa and the black world.

We are writing to you from #Civ