Southern African women writers

To prepare for the WikiconNL 2019 conference (held on 8 March 2019), the ASCL Library compiled this experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier (introduction, title list, web resources) with features offered by Wikidata. It was inspired by Alex Stinson’s article “Writing a Wikidata Query: Discovering Women Writers from North Africa” and focuses on Southern African women writers and their publications. The dossier consists of selected titles from the ASCL Library Catalogue. Titles link to the corresponding record in the online catalogue, which provides additional details and abstracts, where available. A special section has been added under the header “Wikidata”, showcasing an interactive map and table based on Wikidata. The dossier is introduced by ASCL Library Information Specialist Ursula Oberst and concludes with a selection of links to relevant websites.

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Introduction

What is Wikidata?
Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia. Loosely, one could describe Wikidata as Wikipedia’s database with over 60 million data items (January 2019). Beyond Wikimedia projects, Wikidata also provides support to many other sites and services, including the Google Knowledge Graph. In line with Wikimedia’s mission, everyone can add and edit data and use it for free.

Questioning Wikidata
The huge data set in combination with the technology behind Wikidata makes it possible to answer the most diverse questions, such as:

1. Who do women Nobel Prize winners in literature look like?
2. Which countries use 112 as an emergency number?
3. Who are Nelson Mandela’s children?
4. Which Nigerian films start with the letter M ?
5. What tram lines are there in Northern Africa?
6. Which novels are written by Southern African women writers?

Scroll or jump to the end of this introduction to see the answers.

The answers to these questions are as good or bad, as complete or incomplete as Wikidata itself is on a specifc subject. The question about the novels that are written by Southern African women writers only retrieves 44 publications (March 2019) because no Wikimedian has worked extensively on that subject yet. But the fascinating fact about the result is that it is possible to pose that question and to retrieve an answer, which is not possible using the ASCL library catalogue. To generate a list about recently published novels by Southern African women writers published on this site, the librarian had to manually delete the novels written by men from the research result.

Wikidata at the African Studies Centre
Africa is underrepresented in all Wikimedia projects. Closing this knowledge gap is a common goal for both the global Wikimedia community and the African Studies Centre Leiden. Since 2013, the ASCL library has been involved in diverse Wikimedia projects. It hosted a Wikipedian in Special Residence and added several collections of photographs on Africa to Wikimedia Commons. In 2018, the institute started to employ Wikidata by uploading its African Studies Thesaurus to Wikidata and by adding Africa-related publications in the context of WikiCite. At present, the library is working on completing Wikidata records on African political parties, peoples and languages. Furthermore, the library is investigating on how to use Wikidata for its library products and services.

Interested in more information?
If you are interested in posing questions to Wikidata by using its query language SPARQL, read Alex Stinson’s article “Writing a Wikidata Query: Discovering Women Writers from North Africa”. If you prefer to pose your question in natural language, take a look at Dennis Diefenbach’s fascinating project which enables querying Wikidata in natural English, French, German, Spanish and Italian: http://wdaqua.eu/qa (recommended browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome).
The National Library of the Netherlands’ xportal is an excellent example of a portal offering enhanced search functionality and enriched search results (mainly) based on Wikidata.

Answers

Answer 1 | Answer 2 | Answer 3 | Answer 4 | Answer 5 | Answer 6

Ursula Oberst / Walkuraxx

Introduction | Selected titles | Wikidata | Selected web resources

Selected titles

Ten classical novels by Southern African women writers | Recently published novels by Southern African women writers | Literature about Southern African women writers and their publications

Ten classical novels by Southern African women writers

We need new names / NoViolet Bulawayo. - London: Chatto & Windus, 2013.

Nervous conditions / Tsitsi Dangarembga. London : Women's Press, 1988.

Far and beyon’ / Unity Dow. - North Melbourne, VA : Spinifex, 2001.

Burgher’s daughter / Nadine Gordimer. - London: Cape, 1979.

A question of power / Bessie Head. - London [etc.] : Heinemann educational books, 1974.

Die Swerfjare Van Poppie Nongena / Elsa Joubert. - Kaapstad: Tafelberg, 1978.

Living, loving and lying awake at night / Sinidiwe Magona. - New York, NY [etc.] : Interlink, 2003.

Neighbours: the story of a murder / Lilia Momplé. - Oxford [etc.] : Heinemann, 2001.

Butterfly burning / Yvonne Vera. - Harare : Baobab Books, 1998.

David’s story / Zoe Wicomb. - Cape Town : Kwela Books, 2000.

Recently published novels by Southern African women writers

Knell.Ashes.Seppuku / Ashely Ropafadzo Tome. - Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group, 2018.

Lessons from my grandmother : every life is a guided journey / Martha Mutomba. - New York, London, Nashville, Melbourne, Vancouver: Morgan James Publishing, 2018.

There goes English teacher : a memoir / Karin Cronje. - Cape Town: Modjaji Books, 2018.

This mournable body : a novel / Tsitsi Dangarembga. - Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2018.

Waste not your tears / Vivienne Ndlovu. - Harare: Weaver Press, 2018.

Accident / Dawn Garisch. - Cape Town: Modjaji Books, 2017.

Bare : # the blesser's game, # the breeding of an underdog / Jackie Phamotse. - Pinegowrie: Porcupine Press, 2017.

Die laksman se dogter / Gerda Taljaard. - Kaapstad: Penguin Random House South Africa, 2017.

Evening primrose / Kopano Matlwa. - London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2017.

Grace : a novel / Barbara Boswell. - [South Africa]: Modjaji Books, 2017.

If I stay right here : a novel / Chwayita Ngamlana. - Sunnyside: Blackbird Books, 2017.

New times / Rehana Rossouw. - Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2017.

Unpresidented : a comedy of errors / Paige Nick. - [S.l.]: N&B Books, 2017.

Web / Naomi Meyer. - Kaapstad: Queillerie, 2017.

The cry of the hangkaka / Anne Woodborne. - Cape Town: Modjaji Books, 2016.

Die leliemoordenaar / Lerina Erasmus. - Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau, 2016.

Karkloof blue / Charlotte Otter. - Cape Town: Modjaji Books, 2016.

Kattey's arrow : cruel journey to her purpose / Kentse Badirwang. - Wandsbeck: Reach Publishers, 2016.

Lugkasteel / Annelie Botes. - Johannesburg: Penguin, 2016.

Moordvis / Irna van Zyl. - Cape Town: Penguin Random House South Africa, 2016.

Namaste life : a novel / Ishara Maharaj. - Cape Town: Modjaji Books, 2016.

The peculiars / Jen Thorpe. - Cape Town: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd, 2016.

Period pain : a novel / by Kopano Matlwa. - Auckland Park: Jacana, 2016.

Rotten row / Petina Gappah. - London: Faber & Faber, 2016.

The scattering / Lauri Kubuitsile. - Cape Town, South Africa: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd, 2016.

Slaafs / Bettina Wyngaard. - Kaapstad: Umuzi, 2016.

Wars of the Weavers : a memoir / by Debrah Anne Nixon. - [S.l.]: [s.n.], 2016.

The woman next door / Yewande Omotoso. - London: Chatto & Windus, 2016.

The yearning : a novel / by Mohale Mashigo. - South Africa: Picador Africa, 2016.

Africa / Annalisa Conti. - New York: AEC Publishing LLC, 2015.

The Book of Memory / Petina Gappah. - London: Faber and Faber, 2015.

Broken monsters / Lauren Beukes. - London: Harper, 2015.

The elevator kiss / Amina Thula. - Abuja: Ankara Press, 2015.

The fetch / Finuala Dowling. - Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2015.

From man to man, or, Perhaps only-- / Olive Schreiner ; ed. by Dorothy Driver. - Cape Town: UCT Press, 2015.

Green lion / Henrietta Rose-Innes. - Century City: Umuzi, 2015.

Leah : a seer's legend / Botho Lejowa. - London: Olympia Publishers, 2015.

Moestas : 'n raaiselroman / Deborah Steinmair. - Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau, 2015.

The seed thief / Jacqui L'Ange. - Cape Town: Umuzi, 2015.

A slim green silence / Beverly Rycroft. - Cape Town: Umuzi, 2015.

Split / Debbie Loots. - Kaapstad: Queillerie, 2015.

Sula & Ja / by Ellen Banda-Aaku. - Lusaka: Gadsden Publishers, 2015.

Sweet medicine / Panashe Chigumadzi. - Auckland Park: BlackBird Books, 2015.

Vlakwater / Ingrid Winterbach. - Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau, 2015.

Witch girl / Tanvi Bush. - Cape Town: Modjaji Books, 2015.

Literature about Southern African women writers and their publications

Aesthetic dimensions in Nadine Gordimer's post-apartheid short fiction : the case of "Loot" and "Beethoven was one-sixteenth Black" / Kusha Tiwari.
In: Current writing : text and reception in Southern Africa , vol. 29, no. 1, p. 47-55, 2017.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2017.1287424

Agony and penance : Sara Lidman in South Africa 1960-1961 / Raoul J. Granqvist.
In: Current writing : text and reception in Southern Africa , vol. 29, no. 1, p. 2-15, 2017.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2017.1287380

"And they never spoke to each other of it" : contemporary Southern African representations of silence, shame and gender violence / Jessica Murray.
In: The English Academy review , vol. 34, no. 1, p. 23-35, 2017.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2017.1333216

Christi Warner's "Ice cream and politics" : a new collection from Namibia / Mbongeni Malaba.
In: The English Academy review , vol. 34, no. 1, p. 52-70, 2017.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2017.1333226

Stitching a female corporeal archive : representations of gender, violence and resistance in "To the black women we all knew" / Jessica Murray.
In: Current writing : text and reception in Southern Africa , vol. 29, no. 1, p. 16-25, 2017.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2017.1287382

Women's activism in Africa : struggles for rights and representation / edited by Balghis Badri and Aili Mari Tripp. - London: Zed Books, 2017.

Ambivalence of representation : African crises, migration and citizenship in NoViolet Bulawayo's "We need new names" / Isaac Ndlovu.
In: African identities , vol. 14, no. 2, p. 132-146, 2016.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1108838

Being and nothingness : trauma, loss and alienation in Tsitsi Dangarembga's "The book of not" / Yuleth Chigwedere.
In: Journal for studies in humanities and social sciences , vol. 5, no. 2, p. 116-125, 2016.

Dangerous othering in Meg Vandermerwe’s 'Zebra crossing' : Ubuntu - ideals and realities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup / Robyn Wilkinson.
In: International journal of African renaissance studies , vol. 11, no. 1, p. 34-44, 2016.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2016.1212462

Deaf to women : Rhodes's refusal to hear women or his own feminine voice within - a reading of Schreiner's 'Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland' / Rajendra Chetty and Matthew Curr.
In: International journal of African renaissance studies , vol. 11, no. 1, p. 5-21, 2016.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2016.1212460

Geographies of the body: constructing memory through place in Shaun Johnson's 'The Native Commissioner' (2006) and Anne Landsman's 'The Rowing Lesson' (2007) / Gail Fincham.
In: The English Academy review , vol. 33, no. 2, p. 81-95, 2016.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2016.1249694

Identity, gender, and land in Marlene van Niekerk's 'Agaat' / Reinhardt Fourie.
In: The English Academy review , vol. 33, no. 1, p. 38-56, 2016.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2016.1153572

Long story short: the writing life of Sheila Roberts / Stephen Gray.
In: Current writing : text and reception in Southern Africa , vol. 28, no. 2, p. 148-158, 2016.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2016.1202043

Part special issue : in pursuit of transcendence : honouring Doris Lessing / [introd. by Ranka Primorac].
In: Journal of Southern African studies , vol. 42, no. 1, p. 108-148 : ill, 2016.
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/42/1

Part special issue : Nadine Gordimer then and now / [edited by Dennis Walder].
In: Journal of Southern African studies , vol. 42, no. 6, p. 1033-1094, 2016.
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/42/6

Reading the garden(ing) trope in Zoë Wicomb's 'Playing in the light' / Emmanuel Ngwira.
In: Current writing : text and reception in Southern Africa , vol. 28, no. 2, p. 184-192, 2016.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2016.1202050

Vulnerable bodies in Antjie Krog's 'Begging to be black' / Jennifer Upton.
In: Current writing : text and reception in Southern Africa , vol. 28, no. 2, p. 173-183, 2016.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2016.1202046

Collaboratively writing a self: textual strategies in Margaret McCord's 'The calling of Katie Makanya: a memoir of South Africa' / Jenny Siméus.
In: Research in African literatures : official journal of the African Literature Committee of the African Studies Association of America and the African Literatures Seminar of the Modern Language Association , vol. 46, no. 2, p. 70-84, 2015.

Conversations of motherhood : South African women's writing across traditions / Ksenia Robbe. - Pietermaritzburg: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2015.

Doris Lessing's versions of Zimbabwe from 'The golden notebook' to 'Alfred and Emily' / Anthony Chennells.
In: The English Academy review , vol. 32, no. 2, p. 53-69, 2015.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2015.1086158

Exploring the girl-child's body-mind crisis in Mahachi-Harper's "Echoes in the shadows" / Juliet Pasi.
In: Journal for studies in humanities and social sciences , vol. 4, no. 1 & 2, p. 157-167, 2015.

Feminism and pan-Africanism / guest eds. Amina Mama and Hakima Abbas. - Rondebosch: African Gender Institute, 2015.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/e48513238

Moribund whiteness in Nadine Gordimer's 'A guest of honour' and 'Get a life' / Michael Titlestad.
In: The English Academy review , vol. 32, no. 2, p. 8-21, 2015.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2015.1086155

New names, translational subjectivities : (dis)location and (re)naming in NoViolet Bulawayo's 'We Need New Names' / Polo Belina Moji.
In: Journal of African cultural studies , vol. 27, no. 2, p. 181-190, 2015.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2014.993937

Olive Schreiner's 'The story of an African farm': Lyndall as transnational and transracial feminist / Heidi Barends.
In: The English Academy review , vol. 32, no. 2, p. 101-114, 2015.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2015.1086161

Polyphonic disconcert around polygyny : 'Riwan ou le chemin de sable' by Ken Bugul (Senegal) and 'Niketche : a story of polygamy' by Paulina Chiziane (Mozambique) / Catarina Martins.
In: Cahiers d'études africaines , vol. 55, cah. 220, p. 787-810, 2015.

Portrait of courage : women and survival in Tagwira's "The uncertainty of hope" / Anna Chitando.
In: Journal for studies in humanities and social sciences , vol. 4, no. 1 & 2, p. 216-224, 2015.

Quest, chaos, creativity: 'Memorandum: a story with paintings' / Jean Rossmann.
In: The English Academy review , vol. 32, no. 2, p. 38-52 : ill, 2015.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2015.1086157

Rethinking African sexualities in the context of HIV and AIDS : the life and death discourse of 'modernised polygamy' in Sue Nyathi's The polygamist / Tendai Mangena.
In: International journal of African renaissance studies , vol. 10, no. 1, p. 181-190, 2015.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2015.1050226

Whiteness visible: the representation of race in Daphne Rooke's Mittee / Bridget Grogan.
In: Current writing : text and reception in Southern Africa , vol. 27, no. 1, p. 1-12, 2015.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2015.1037568

Conceptions of marginality in the postcolonial novel : revisting Bessie Head / Adamu Pangmeshi. - [Leeds]: Dignitypublishing, 2014.

'Every place is three places' : bursting seams in recent fiction by Diane Awerbuck and Henrietta Rose-Innes / Ken Barris.
In: Current writing : text and reception in Southern Africa , vol. 26, no. 1, p. 59-69 : foto's, 2014.

A Foucauldian reading of power dynamics in two Afrikaans historical novels Daleen Matthee's 'Fiela's child' and Micki Pistorius's 'Sorg' / Belinda du Plooy.
In: Current writing : text and reception in Southern Africa , vol. 26, no. 1, p. 51-58, 2014.

'Lame ducks' in the time of HIV/AIDS? : exploring female victimhood in selected HIV/AIDS narratives by Zimbabwean female writers / Cuthbeth Tagwirei.
In: Critical arts : a journal of media studies , vol. 28, no. 2, p. 216-228, 2014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2014.906341

Literary bridges of Sindiwe Magona / Dianne Shober. - Mainz: Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 2014.
https://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/files/2019/07/AP_149.pdf

Playing catch-up / Ellen Banda-Aaku.
In: Journal of Southern African studies , vol. 40, no. 3, p. 607-613, 2014.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2014.909661

Special issue : celebrating the 40th anniversary of the publication of Bessie Head's "A question of power" (1973) / Margaret Daymond, guest ed. - Abingdon: Routledge, 2014.

Themed edition: Olga Kirsch / Jerzy Koch ... [et al.]. - Poznán: Department of Dutch and Afrikaans Language, Literature and Culture, School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, 2014.

Urban youth unemployment in Zimbabwe: an African-centered literary-based critique of Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not (2006), Valerie Tagwira's The Uncertainty of Hope (2006) and Petina Gappah's An Elegy for Easterly (2009) / Ruby Magosvongwe and Abner Nyamende.
In: Journal for studies in humanities and social sciences , vol. 3, no. 1 & 2, p. 189-212, 2014.

The world's great question : Olive Schreiner's South African letters 1889-1920 / ed. and introd. by Liz Stanley and Andrea Salter. - Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, 2014.

"Confessional spaces and criminality": incest in Alice Walker and Yvonne Vera's works.
In: Journal for studies in humanities and social sciences , vol. 2, no. 1, p. 94-103, 2013.

Dossier littératures et migrations transafricaines / Textes réunies par Catherine Mazauric & Alioune Sow. - Metz: Études littéraires africaines, 2013.

'The girl was stripped, splayed and penetrated' : representations of gender and violence in Margie Orford's crime fiction / Jessica Murray.
In: The English Academy review , vol. 30, no. 2, p. 67-78, 2013.

The limitations and possibilities of identity and form in selected recent memoirs and novels by white female Zimbabwean writers: Alexandra Fuller, Lauren Liebenberg, Bryony Rheam and Lauren St. John / Ruth Eppel. - [S.l.: s.n.], 2013.
http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001985

Little houses and other children's spaces in 'The Child's Day' by Olive Schreiner and 'The Chronicles of Peach Grove Farm' by Nellie Fincher / Elwyn Jenkins.
In: The English Academy review , vol. 30, no. 2, p. 42-52, 2013.

Memory and disenchantment in Nadine Gordimer's 'None to Accompany Me' and Zoe Wicomb’s 'Playing in the Light' / Zuhmboshi Eric Nsuh.
In: African sociological review , vol. 17, no. 2, p. 24-42, 2013.
http://www.ajol.info/index.php/asr/article/view/113584/103299

'Respectable women' versus 'small houses' : feminist negotiations of sexual morality, marriage and the challenge of HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe / Lene Bull Christiansen.
In: Journal of Southern African studies , vol. 39, no. 3, p. 511-526, 2013.

Snapshots of the Botswana nation : Bessie Head's "The collector of treasures & other Botwana village tales" as a national project / Louisa Uchum Egbunike.
In: African literature today : a journal of explanatory criticism , no. 31, p. 65-76, 2013.

Special issue: crime fiction, South Africa / [guest ed.: Sam Naidu]. - Durban: University of Natal, 2013.

A Bushman voice from the Drakensberg : Zanele Mkhwanazi's story / Michael Wessels.
In: Current writing : text and reception in Southern Africa , vol. 24, no. 1, p. 58-71, 2012.

Dystopian dreams from South Africa : Lauren Beukes's 'Moxyland' and 'Zoo City' / Cheryl Stobie.
In: African identities , vol. 10, no. 4, p. 367-380, 2012.

Fictions of gender and the dangers of fiction in Zimbabwean women's writings on HIV & AIDS / Anna Chitando. - Harare: Africa Institute for Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Tolerance Studies, 2012.

The layered gaze : reading lesbian desire in selected South African fiction / Jessica Murray.
In: Current writing : text and reception in Southern Africa , vol. 24, no. 1, p. 88-97, 2012.

Living in subalternity : the becoming of the subaltern in Bessie Head's "A woman alone, a gesture of belonging", and "When rain clouds gather" / Reshmi Mukherjee.
In: The Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA) , vol. 7, no. 2, p. 37-55, 2012.

"Thinking your journal unimportant" : a feminist literary analysis of selected excerpts from Lady Anne Barnard's Cape diaries / Jessica Murray.
In: New contree : a journal of historical and human sciences for Southern Africa , no. 63, p. 91-109 : foto, 2012.

Shame as a structure of feeling : raped and prostituted women in J.M. Coetzee's "Disgrace" and Futhi Ntshingila's "Shameless" / Sarah Bezan.
In: The Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA) , vol. 7, no. 1, p. 15-24, 2012.

Daring to speak its name : the representation of a lesbian relationship in the work of Rozena Maart / Jessica Murray.
In: The English Academy review , vol. 28, no. 2, p. 52-61, 2011.

'I am well if you are well' : nervous conditions of African philanthropy in Tsitsi Dangarembga's novels / Robert Muponde.
In: African identities , vol. 9, no. 4, p. 387-400, 2011.

Instances of Bessie Head's distinctive feminism, womanism and Africanness in her novels / L.J. Rafapa, A.Z. Nengome and H.S. Tshamano.
In: Tydskrif vir letterkunde : 'n tydskrif vir Afrika-letterkunde , jg. 48, nr. 2, p. 112-121, 2011.

Intertekstualiteit en modernistiese kompleksiteit in Henriette Grové se Linda Joubert-romans / Andries Wessels. - 2011.

[Reading Zoe͏̈ Wicomb's cosmopolitan, domestic and recursive settings] / [introd. Meg Samuelson ; contrib. Dorothy Driver ... et al.]. - Durban: University of Natal, 2011.

A romance that failed: Bessie Head and black nationalism in 1960s South Africa / Dobrota Pucherova.
In: Research in African literatures : official journal of the African Literature Committee of the African Studies Association of America and the African Literatures Seminar of the Modern Language Association , vol. 42, no. 2, p. 105-124, 2011.

Caderno de estudos literários e linguísticos / Manuel Muanza (organização) ; apresentação de Francisco Soares. - Luanda: Mayamba, 2010.

Cape Verdean and Mozambican women's literature: liberating the national and seizing the intimate / Isabel Fêo P.B. Rodrigues and Kathleen Sheldon.
In: African studies review : the journal of the African Studies Association , vol. 53, no. 3, p. 77-99, 2010.

Family memory and historical fiction : Botlhale Tema's 'The People of Welgeval' / Fred Morton.
In: South African historical journal , vol. 62, no. 2, p. 325-337 : geneal, 2010.

Olive Schreiner : the other side of the moon / Heather Parker Lewis. - Cape Town: Ihilihili Press, 2010.

Re-reading the past: monuments, history and representation in short stories by Ivan Vladislavić and Zoe͏̈ Wicomb / Sue Kossew.
In: Journal of Southern African studies , vol. 36, no. 3, p. 571-582, 2010.

Southern African literature / Peter W. Mwikisa, Mary S. Lederer, and Leloba Molema (guest ed.). - Bloomington, Ind. [etc.]: Indiana University Press, 2010.

Wikidata

Southern African women writers : Wikidata map

Each red dot on the map shows the birthplace of a Southern African women writer. If you click on a dot, a window pops up showing a photograph of the writer, provided that the Wikidata record contains an image. You can link to the writer’s publications in the ASCL catalogue and to her English Wikipedia article (NB: the ASC Library does not hold copies of the work of every Southern African women writer mentioned in Wikidata).

Novels by Southern African women writers: Wikidata table

This table lists all novels written by Southern African women writers with a record in Wikidata. It includes a link to the English Wikipedia article, where available. Whenever someone adds a novel to Wikidata the list will grow.

Selected web resources

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Lire les femmes écrivaines et les littératures africaines
A site maintained by the University of Western Australia, with information on African female writers and their books, in English and French, as well as links.
http://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/FEMEChome.html

A Celebration of Women Writers
A site maintained by the Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Wikipedian in residence at the Science History Institute, with information on female writers and their books and copies of more than 400 out-of-copyright works written by women.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women

Africa South of the Sahara, Topics: African Literature and Writers on the Internet
An annotated guide to internet resources on African writers and literature, maintained by  Karin Fung, Stanford University.
http://library.stanford.edu/africa-south-sahara/browse-topic/literature

Wiki Loves Women
The project focuses on bridging two significant gaps on Wikimedia projects – women and Africa – both in terms of content about these subjects and in terms of participation by people from these groups.
https://www.wikiloveswomen.org/