Awa Thiam

Awa Thiam (born 1950) is a Senegalese politician, writer, and activist. She is best known for her 1978 book La Parole aux négresses, published in English in 1986 as Black Sisters, Speak Out: Feminism and Oppression in Black Africa. She has been active in the campaign against female genital mutilation, and in 1982 founded the Commission pour l'Abolition des Mutilations Sexuelles.^[1] Thiam is among the writers featured in the anthology Daughters of Africa.^[2]

References

↑ Kathleen E. Sheldon (2005). Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5331-7.
↑ Charles F. Peterson, Dubois, Fanon, Cabral: The Margins of Elite Anti-colonial Leadership, Lexington Books, 2007, p. 137, note 55.

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[Sheldon2005-1] Kathleen E. Sheldon (2005). Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5331-7.

[2] Charles F. Peterson, Dubois, Fanon, Cabral: The Margins of Elite Anti-colonial Leadership, Lexington Books, 2007, p. 137, note 55.