«Busby opens the door wide and allows her readers to witness the conversations that have occurred between black women writers, conversations about culture, love, inheritance and more, without mediation from the powerful institutions of publishing and academia. The effect is marvellous. It is also necessary»

Imani Perry, Financial Times

«An incredible introduction to black women's writing from around the world»

Bernardine Evaristo

«This remarkable book constitutes a powerful affirmation of literary achievement, demonstrating that contemporary black women writers are part of a vital and extensive tradition»

Times Literary Supplement

«New Daughters of Africa is a beautiful, essential anthology. It is both long-awaited and urgently needed; it recognises the individual voices and interwoven histories of every facet of womanhood»

Preti Taneja

«New Daughters of Africa is indispensable because African voices have been silenced or diminished throughout history, and women's voices even more so»

The Irish Times

«A seminal, international anthology . . . a selection of Africa’s most compelling voices – poets, storytellers, rhetoricians – all commenting, critiquing and fantasising about a world opening its doors to let us in»

Daily Maverick