"No, when you’re doing something you do it because you have a passion for doing it or you want to see it come to fruition but you’re not necessarily looking beyond that. It certainly has had an impact on people – people as readers, people as writers – because I think there were a lot of people who read that book who wanted to be writers and were influenced by it in one way or another. So, I guess it has had an influence and has a continuing influence; this new anthology demonstrates a continuing link to those writers and that whole literary history of women of African descent who are using words creatively, whether orature, spoken word, speeches, the written word, different genres."
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Margaret Busby
1944 – 2011
Margaret Yvonne Busby CBE, Hon. FRSL (born 1944), also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK. She was Britain's first black female (and youngest) book publisher when she and Clive Allison (1944–2011) co-founded the London-based Allison & Busby (A & B) imprint in 1967. She edited the anthology Daughters of Africa (1992) and its sequel New Daughters of Africa (2019). A recipient of the Royal Society of Literature's w:Benson Medal
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