This guest post is by Glennon Doyle Melton, author and member of The Compassion Collective: "Today, in the spirit of Julia Howe and every other revolutionary for love, let us take back Mother's Day by mothering the motherless. Let us become the leaders we were waiting for."
By Katie G. Nelson If you trek far enough into Kibera—through the maze of scrap-metal houses connected by webs of live wires running roof to roof, and down a slippery hill toward a peeling blue iron door that towers so high you can’t see the sky above—you might just catch a glimmer of hope inside the largest slum in Kenya. Her name is Anne Wambui and she’s the headmaster of Anwa Junior Academy. Headmaster Anne Wambui at Anwa Junior Academy in Kibera,...
In celebration of World Book Day (and in anticipation of International Women’s Day), here are some female African authors, some whose work holds a revered place in African literature, and others who are at the advent of their literary careers.