Unit 1
For Audre Lorde, poetry is not this
What is a luxury?
This author likens "patriarchy" to an "octopus"
Mona Eltahawy
A being made up of organic and inorganic parts
What is a cyborg?
Panashe Chigumadzi writes about this concept in These Bones Will Rise Again
What is the ancestor?
"Poetry is a way to help give name to the nameless so it can be thought" was stated by this author
Who is Audre Lorde?
This person is Chimamanda Adichie's friend
Who is Ijeawele?
This entity is caught in a cycle of life and death
What is an ogbanje?
Death and the Afterlife in African Culture was written by this Ghanaian author
Who is Kwasi Wiredu?
"The truth felt like a story" is a line written in this chapter in Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
What is "Dear Jahra"?
Warsan Shire's family hails from this African nation
What is Somalia?
This author, who coined the term Afro-Futuristism, likens herself to Frida Khalo
Who is Nnedi Okorafor?
Audre Lorde finds this to be a useful analytic for understanding women's joy, power, and creativity
What is the erotic?
This author, who is one of the most important American authors of the twentieth and twenty-first century, wrote about the power of words through a complicated bird metaphor
Who is Toni Morrison?
"Imagine if we declared war" is the first line in this chapter of Mona Eltahawy's The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
What is "Chapter 6: violence"?
This author is from the same country as Chimamanda Adichie
Who is Akwaeke Emezi?
This author writes about "mudzimu" and "mhondoro," two different ancestral spirits
Who is Panashe Chigumadzi?
Who is Yvonne Vera
The subtitle to Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie's book Dear Ijeawele
What is "Or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions"?
"Language, tool use, social behaviour, mental events, nothing really convincingly settles the separation of human and animal" was stated in this text by this author
What is "The Cyborg Manifesto" by Donna Haraway?
That people who pass away live in a geography similar to ours is an example of this organizing system
What is cosmology?