Mabel Dove-Danquah: A Trailblazing Author, Feminist, Politician, Activist & Journalist

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Dr. SAS, Counsel for the Danquists 9 years ago

Nice cut and paste article that pays a glowing tribute to the first wife of Osagyefo Dr. J. B. Danquah, and by extension, the great martyr and mentor himself.

Kudos, Bro. Kwarteng. Good job for the timely honor done to our ...
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Nice cut and paste article that pays a glowing tribute to the first wife of Osagyefo Dr. J. B. Danquah, and by extension, the great martyr and mentor himself.

Kudos, Bro. Kwarteng. Good job for the timely honor done to our hero and his wife.
Haruna M. Dagarti 9 years ago

Danquah does no wrong. Danquah is our leader. Danquah is our messiah. Danquah never dies.

Danquah does no wrong. Danquah is our leader. Danquah is our messiah. Danquah never dies.
Bob 9 years ago

Kwarteng, you sounds totally exausted from pasting series of copied garbage. You are now cutting more garbage than rubbish.

You have two major problems, you can't think right and secondly your low I.Q. can't help you to ex ...
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Kwarteng, you sounds totally exausted from pasting series of copied garbage. You are now cutting more garbage than rubbish.

You have two major problems, you can't think right and secondly your low I.Q. can't help you to express yourself sensibly in English.
Idrissu Yakubu 9 years ago

Bob, you are so knowledgeable. Your great encyclopedias on scientific knowledge must be mandatory reading for all university scholars. Personally, I'm honored for the introduction to your colossal intellect.

Bob, you are so knowledgeable. Your great encyclopedias on scientific knowledge must be mandatory reading for all university scholars. Personally, I'm honored for the introduction to your colossal intellect.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

The kudos is to Francis for honouring the memory of an indefatigible woman who unfortunately married a womanising rogue! Ha! ha! That one comes out clearly in the piece. You can't sanitised it.

Btw, I think the "Vicentis K ...
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The kudos is to Francis for honouring the memory of an indefatigible woman who unfortunately married a womanising rogue! Ha! ha! That one comes out clearly in the piece. You can't sanitised it.

Btw, I think the "Vicentis Kwawukume" at the wedding" was actually Vicentia, mispelt as "Vicentis". Became Mrs Odamtten and mother to Prof. Vincent Odamtten (US) with Kumasi as their adopted home. I believe she was there representing her father, Torgbui Sri II, Awoamefia of Anlo, who was in the LegCo from 1916 with Nana Ofori Attah, and so naturally must have someone gracing the occasion on his behalf.

Andy-K
GORGORDUTOR 9 years ago

C.Y. ANDY-K, you know much better than me that your dad, Kwawukume was corrupt and a thief Ewe, who used his position those days to steal cars from the Tema habour, but then it is not new, because such habbit is normal with y ...
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C.Y. ANDY-K, you know much better than me that your dad, Kwawukume was corrupt and a thief Ewe, who used his position those days to steal cars from the Tema habour, but then it is not new, because such habbit is normal with you people(Ewes). Corruption, thievery, laziness, wickedness, post mongers, tribal, partisan, child molesters, primitiveness, backwardness and to top all unsocialble fools. I hope I left nothing unsaid!
GORGORDUTOR 9 years ago

EMIDUTORVIAWO MATEMEHONI NO TESTICLES FELLATOR, ignominiously masquerading to spew his ethnocentric venom.

Brethren behold a malodorous colonial swamp dweller so ashamed of himself he must hide!!! WAAAAOOW Sorry to drive ...
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EMIDUTORVIAWO MATEMEHONI NO TESTICLES FELLATOR, ignominiously masquerading to spew his ethnocentric venom.

Brethren behold a malodorous colonial swamp dweller so ashamed of himself he must hide!!! WAAAAOOW Sorry to drive you to this patently despicable tactic! I will try to keep in mind that in the Late Post Pentium age your firmware is corrupted running on late 60 colonial slave processor!! Your RAM memory is hopelessly overloaded with self loathing;!!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Nyebro Yao,

Thanks for the corrective info.

Have a great weekend.

Thanks.

Nyebro Yao,

Thanks for the corrective info.

Have a great weekend.

Thanks.
ELINAM 9 years ago

Feminists are white women's creation. Before black women in the US started messing up with that poison, both African American men and women fought together against an evil system and made head way. The family was tight and to ...
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Feminists are white women's creation. Before black women in the US started messing up with that poison, both African American men and women fought together against an evil system and made head way. The family was tight and together then the feminists invited black women who had no business in that white women sorority and right after that, the black community broke in to disarray and one tight family of blacks became so broken with too many single mothers.

There's no prestige for a true African woman to be a feminists. African tradition has NEVER made the woman less than the man. What we see as the suppression of women's rights were introduced by Europeans thru their culture and religion and carried on by the western educated foolish African man who is doing everything to be a white man.
Africa tradition gives power to the woman to be queen,ruler,fighter, mother, spiritual consultant, priestess, teacher and king maker.
The European woman never had any of those things in their tradition until just 300 years ago when few became queens but even that did not allow the overwhelming number of white women any decision making positions in society and could not vote until 1940 in the US, but the black women had been all that and co-rullers with men since God had created then first before any other race.

A feminist can never be a co -ruler but a person who competes and kills the natural balance that God had endows the black man and the black woman with.

Any well informed African woman should shun that title as it becomes a weapon that creates a valley between the black man and the black woman, a situation anti-African forces delight in.
We should know our history and what we have achieved together before the conquerors came knocking with fake knowledge.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

READ: "...“The degree of a country’s revolutionary awareness may be measured by the political maturity of women.”..."

WE SAY: We've always been One (1) with that statement, and believe that Ghana is still under-devel ...
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READ: "...“The degree of a country’s revolutionary awareness may be measured by the political maturity of women.”..."

WE SAY: We've always been One (1) with that statement, and believe that Ghana is still under-developed because Ghana (i.e., 'Ghanaman') has neglected to protect, polish, and promote the jewel that is the Ghanaian woman.

While that phenomenon is practically global in character and has been treated by many feminists and thoughtful politicians, our interest is in Ghana, thus our circumscribed orientation.

For this important reason, we strongly commend Francis Kwarteng for taking time to write this essay on an important Ghanaian, Mabel Dove-Danquah.

We wouldn't know this from Danquahcrats!

Mabel Dove-Danquah is truly a trailblazer and pacesetter who was long-buried in history by the cobwebs and funk of male chauvinism, cultural anachronism, political self-contentedness, and crass political grandstanding that only serve(d) to keep thieves at the head of the table in society.

IMAGINE THIS: In a "million" essays, all over the place, not a paragraph was ever penned on Journalist Mabel Dove-Danquah, by Danquahcrat Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, who for years cited his professorship in "journalism" at that community college in New York, as his gift to all of us on these forums.

How do you inspire young girls, if you hide the achievements of their kind.

Why won't your college look kindly at you and allow you to cite your affiliation with them if you spent time on this other important aspects of true human life, experience and 'HERSTORY'?

GREETINGS!

GREETINGS ON A WONDERFUL DAY

OH HAPPY DAY!

OH HAPPY DAY!

WHEN DANQUAHCRATS CRIED FOR HERSTORY!

WHEN DANQUAHCRATS CRIED FOR HERSTORY!

OH HAPPY DAY!

WE KNOW WE HAVE WON

OH HAPPY DAY!

Dr. SAS, Counsel for the Danquists 9 years ago

I join you wholeheartedly to celebrate the great achievements of a great woman who married a great man.

Thanks MOFO. Prof. Kwarteng has indeed made my day with this unique cut and paste.

I join you wholeheartedly to celebrate the great achievements of a great woman who married a great man.

Thanks MOFO. Prof. Kwarteng has indeed made my day with this unique cut and paste.
Kojo T 9 years ago

Mabel great yes but J B had none of greatness.Greatness was being trust upon him but he failed miserably to grasp it

Mabel great yes but J B had none of greatness.Greatness was being trust upon him but he failed miserably to grasp it
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

Kojo T, the disgrace is becoming rampant, better let it be with trying to comment in English, Kojo stop pulling Ewes in a dirth and better write your comments next time in Ewe, after all we can understand you good.

Kojo T, the disgrace is becoming rampant, better let it be with trying to comment in English, Kojo stop pulling Ewes in a dirth and better write your comments next time in Ewe, after all we can understand you good.
Dessie 9 years ago

interesting stories

interesting stories
aboliaboli 9 years ago

This type of superficial "scholarship is all too common. Mabel us only portrayed in where she worked and what happened to her. But what matters most in describing a writer is: what sort of voice did she have? What was the qu ...
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This type of superficial "scholarship is all too common. Mabel us only portrayed in where she worked and what happened to her. But what matters most in describing a writer is: what sort of voice did she have? What was the quality of her writing?

This "scholar" gives us none of that!
Reeling off titles us nit the same.
Shame.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Aboliaboli,

Thanks for the issues you raised.

Before I begin, let me ask you this simple question: How do you read? That is, did you read every line I wrote?

I ask because I clearly defined the focus of my essa ...
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Dear Aboliaboli,

Thanks for the issues you raised.

Before I begin, let me ask you this simple question: How do you read? That is, did you read every line I wrote?

I ask because I clearly defined the focus of my essay right in the introduction. I wrote at the end of my introduction:

"In this essay we look at one of the great women of the Gold Coast (Ghana), Mabel Ellen Dove, and some of her major achievements."

This statement makes it clear that I was not going to discuss her writings from the standpoint of literary criticism, etc. If you couldn't get my "voice" in this simple line, how else on earth could you have got Mabel's multiple "voices" if I had detailed her writings from the point of view of literary criticism, etc.?

You see how easy it is to comment on a piece you did not thoroughly read or digest? If you care to know, Mabel's short stories are easy to read and you can get them for free! They are all over the internet. I took my time to go through them before writing my piece. She does not have a single "voice" as your "voice" seems to imply.

What is more, I gave you (and others) a glimpse into what these multiple "voices" could possibly be and even went further to provide an abbreviated list under "FURTHER READING" where these questions are discussed in some detail.

To make a long story short, there is nothing I can tell you about Mabel's multiple "voices" which you cannot get in these pages I provide under "FURTHER READING." To do exactly this will require a series of articles or an unnecessarily longer article. That was not the purpose of my article. I MADE THIS CLEAR IN THE INTRODUCTION.

And if you miss this simple statement in the introduction, which I suppose you should not have missed before finishing the article, how else could you have grasped her multiple "voices" if I had discussed them somewhere in the middle of the essay.

That said, such a pedestrian concept or tool such as literary device, fiction device, or literary technique---her multiple "voices" is a concept you can easily derive from her assorted writings if you read her writings well enough.

And like I said before, I gave a hint of those "voices" in this straightforward essay. What is the use or point of references ("FURTHER READING") anyway?

Well, there is nothing I can tell on the planet about Mabel's multiple "voices" which you can never get in the following short list of references (REMEMBER THERE IS LACK OF CONSESNSUS ON THE NATURE OF WHAT CONSTITUTES "VOICES" AMONG THESE SCHOLARS, BECAUSE MABEL WROTE ON ASSORTED, THAT IS MANY AND VARIOUS, TOPICS AND THUS EMPLOYED DIFFRERENT "VOICES" TO REACH HER ASSORTED READERSHIP. THIS ALSO PARTLY EXPLAINS WHY SHE WROTE UNDER DIFFERENT PSEUDONYMS. DO I ALSO HAVE TO EXPLAIN WHY SHE USED DIFFERENT PSEUDONYMS?):

1) Stephanie Newall (ed). “Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa” (see Naana J. Opoku-Agyemang’s essay “Recovering Lost Voices: The Short Stories of Mabel Dove-Danquah).

2) Stephanie Newall (ed) & Audrey Gadzekpo (ed). “Selected Writings of a Pioneer West African Feminist.”

3) Stephanie Newall. “Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana: How to Play the Game of Life.” (see the essay “White Cargoes/Black Cargoes on The West Coast of Africa: Mabel Dove’s ‘A Woman in Jade.’”

4) “Ghana Association of Writers, 100 Years International Centenary Evenings with Aggrey.” Ghana Association of Writers (1975). (see K.A.B. Jones-Quartey’s essay “Profiles: First Lady of Pen and Parliament—A Portrait”).

5) A.B. Chinbuah. “Heroes of Our Time—Ms. Mabel Ellen Dove.” Modernghana.

6) Esi Sutherland-Addy (ed) & Aminata Diaw (ed). “Women Writing: West Africa and the Sahel.”

7) Kathleen E. Sheldon. “Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa.”

8) Kwame Botwe-Asamoah. “Kwame Nkrumah’s Politico-Cultural Thought and Politics.”

9) Kwame Arhin. “The Life and Work of Kwame Nkrumah.” (see Takyiwah Manuh’s essay “Women and Their Organizations During the Convention Peoples’ Party Period”).

10) Oyeronke Oyewumi (ed). “African Gender Studies: A Reader.” (see Audrey Gadzekpo’s paper “The Hidden History of Gender in Ghanaian Print Culture”).

11) Ama Biney. “The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah.”

12) J.D.Y. Peel (ed) & J.F. Ade Ajayi (ed). “People and Empires in African History: Essays in Memory of Michael Crowder.” (see LaRay Denzer’s paper “Gender and Decolonization: A Study of Three Women in West African Public Life,” p. 217-236).

13) Cheryl Johnson-Odim. “For Their Freedoms: The Anti-Imperialist and International Feminist Activity of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria.” “Women’s Studies International Forum 32 (2009), p. 51-59.

14) L.W. Conolly (ed) & Eugene Benson (ed). “Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures.”

15) Toyin Falola & Steven J. Salm. “Culture and Customs of Ghana.”

16) Cheikh Anta Diop. “African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality.”

17) Cheikh Anta Diop. “Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology”

18) Cheikh Anta Diop. “The Cultural Unity of Black Africa: The Domains of Matriarchy & of Patriarchy in Classical Antiquity."

19) Helen Yitah. “Strong-Headed and Masculine Hearted Women: Female Subjectivity in Mabel Dove-Danquah’s Fiction.”

20) Helen Yitah. “‘The More Storytellers, The Better’: Diversity, Ghanaian Literature and Mabel Dove-Danquah’s Fiction.”

21) Oyekan Owomoyela. “The Columbia Guide to West African Literature in English Since 1945.”

22) Charlortte H. Bruner (ed). “Unwinding Threads: Writing by Women in Africa.”

23) “Gold Coast’s First Assembly Woman.” West African Review. September 1954, p. 829.

24) Margaret Busby. "Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present"

Please, go and read Mabel's works and you will find her multiple "voices" since she did not have one as your imply in your overly simplistic comment. If you do so, you may even find some major disagreements with me on what I may have said about her multiple "voices." You may also have a reason(s) to disagree or question the bases of conclusions reached by these other authors mentioned above and what they have to say about Mabel's multiple "voices."

I hope you have a sense by now as to why writers (like me) don't always have to tell readers everything. You should go a step further and learn that yourself. My saying anything about Mabel's multiple "voices" won't necessarily constitute the final word as far as the debate goes!

After all, finding an author’s “voice” or “voices’ is one of the most basic things we all studied in high school! Is it not? Go and read her works and come back and share your take on her "voice," if you think she had only one, with me and those interested in the subject matter. And when you do, please make sure you do so, I mean this simple of most high-school tasks, in a vigorous "scholarly" fashion!

Have a great weekend.

Thanks.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Aboliaboli,

Tell us also how Mabel's "voice" (in your special case) correlates with all her pseudonyms (as regards all the newspapers I mentioned and her corpus of short stories)!

Tell us also how all these "facts ...
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Dear Aboliaboli,

Tell us also how Mabel's "voice" (in your special case) correlates with all her pseudonyms (as regards all the newspapers I mentioned and her corpus of short stories)!

Tell us also how all these "facts" tie in with the "voice" (again, in your special case) of Mabel Ellen Dove and of Mabel Dove-Danquah (when she wrote for the Graphic, say)!

Finally, tell us about her "voice" when she defied her father as a student in England, when she was involved in theatre in Sierra Leone, when she was involved in founding a girls' club in Sierra Leone, etc.

Mind you, she wrote on all these! I AM SAYING THESE BECAUSE I DON'T WANT YOU TO LEAVE ANYTHING OUT AS FAR AS HER "VOICE" IS CONCERNED.

Thanks.
sowah 9 years ago

Miss Dove was my mentor to all people who stayed with her st tech may God bless us and her ancestors especially sister Ella late bro franklin and bra nii adoo

Miss Dove was my mentor to all people who stayed with her st tech may God bless us and her ancestors especially sister Ella late bro franklin and bra nii adoo
aboliaboli 9 years ago

Francis Kwarteng,
I am criticising your entire approach, which the introdution cannot excuse!

What did she have to say about women's rights? You don't tell us. Is it because you are too lazy to look for her works and rep ...
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Francis Kwarteng,
I am criticising your entire approach, which the introdution cannot excuse!

What did she have to say about women's rights? You don't tell us. Is it because you are too lazy to look for her works and report on them? Google should charge you for stealing its references.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Aboliaboli,

Where are my answers? Anyway you are not criticizing. You are merely being lazy. You can read Mabel's short stories in minutes! Therefore what are you waiting for? Go and read them and come back with your ...
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Dear Aboliaboli,

Where are my answers? Anyway you are not criticizing. You are merely being lazy. You can read Mabel's short stories in minutes! Therefore what are you waiting for? Go and read them and come back with your views.

I have already already given you general outline of her thoughts. You should do the rest if you want specifics. Here are a few things I want you to do:
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Tell us also how Mabel's "voice" (in your special case) correlates with all her pseudonyms (as regards all the newspapers I mentioned and her corpus of short stories)!

Tell us also how all these "facts" tie in with the "voice" (again, in your special case) of Mabel Ellen Dove and of Mabel Dove-Danquah (when she wrote for the Graphic, say)!

Finally, tell us about her "voice" when she defied her father as a student in England, when she was involved in theater in Sierra Leone, when she was involved in founding a girls' club in Sierra Leone, etc.

Mind you, she wrote on all these! I AM SAYING THESE BECAUSE I DON'T WANT YOU TO LEAVE ANYTHING OUT AS FAR AS HER "VOICE" IS CONCERNED.

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Thanks for the issues you raised. What do feminists (and suffragists) generally say about women's rights? What do feminists generally advocate (for)?

Before I begin, let me ask you this simple question: How do you read? That is, did you read every line I wrote?

I ask because I clearly defined the focus of my essay right in the introduction. I wrote at the end of my introduction:

"In this essay we look at one of the great women of the Gold Coast (Ghana), Mabel Ellen Dove, and some of her major achievements."

This statement makes it clear that I was not going to discuss her writings from the standpoint of literary criticism, etc. If you couldn't get my "voice" in this simple line, how else on earth could you have got Mabel's multiple "voices" if I had detailed her writings from the point of view of literary criticism, etc.?

You see how easy it is to comment on a piece you did not thoroughly read or digest? If you care to know, Mabel's short stories are easy to read and you can get them for free! They are all over the internet. I took my time to go through them before writing my piece. She does not have a single "voice" as your "voice" seems to imply.

What is more, I gave you (and others) a glimpse into what these multiple "voices" could possibly be and even went further to provide an abbreviated list under "FURTHER READING" where these questions are discussed in some detail.

To make a long story short, there is nothing I can tell you about Mabel's multiple "voices" which you cannot get in these pages I provide under "FURTHER READING." To do exactly this will require a series of articles or an unnecessarily longer article. That was not the purpose of my article. I MADE THIS CLEAR IN THE INTRODUCTION.

And if you miss this simple statement in the introduction, which I suppose you should not have missed before finishing the article, how else could you have grasped her multiple "voices" if I had discussed them somewhere in the middle of the essay.

That said, such a pedestrian concept or tool such as literary device, fiction device, or literary technique---her multiple "voices" is a concept you can easily derive from her assorted writings if you read her writings well enough.

And like I said before, I gave a hint of those "voices" in this straightforward essay. What is the use or point of references ("FURTHER READING") anyway?

Well, there is nothing I can tell on the planet about Mabel's multiple "voices" which you can never get in the following short list of references (REMEMBER THERE IS LACK OF CONSESNSUS ON THE NATURE OF WHAT CONSTITUTES "VOICES" AMONG THESE SCHOLARS, BECAUSE MABEL WROTE ON ASSORTED, THAT IS MANY AND VARIOUS, TOPICS AND THUS EMPLOYED DIFFRERENT "VOICES" TO REACH HER ASSORTED READERSHIP. THIS ALSO PARTLY EXPLAINS WHY SHE WROTE UNDER DIFFERENT PSEUDONYMS. DO I ALSO HAVE TO EXPLAIN WHY SHE USED DIFFERENT PSEUDONYMS?):

1) Stephanie Newall (ed). “Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa” (see Naana J. Opoku-Agyemang’s essay “Recovering Lost Voices: The Short Stories of Mabel Dove-Danquah).

2) Stephanie Newall (ed) & Audrey Gadzekpo (ed). “Selected Writings of a Pioneer West African Feminist.”

3) Stephanie Newall. “Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana: How to Play the Game of Life.” (see the essay “White Cargoes/Black Cargoes on The West Coast of Africa: Mabel Dove’s ‘A Woman in Jade.’”

4) “Ghana Association of Writers, 100 Years International Centenary Evenings with Aggrey.” Ghana Association of Writers (1975). (see K.A.B. Jones-Quartey’s essay “Profiles: First Lady of Pen and Parliament—A Portrait”).

5) A.B. Chinbuah. “Heroes of Our Time—Ms. Mabel Ellen Dove.” Modernghana.

6) Esi Sutherland-Addy (ed) & Aminata Diaw (ed). “Women Writing: West Africa and the Sahel.”

7) Kathleen E. Sheldon. “Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa.”

8) Kwame Botwe-Asamoah. “Kwame Nkrumah’s Politico-Cultural Thought and Politics.”

9) Kwame Arhin. “The Life and Work of Kwame Nkrumah.” (see Takyiwah Manuh’s essay “Women and Their Organizations During the Convention Peoples’ Party Period”).

10) Oyeronke Oyewumi (ed). “African Gender Studies: A Reader.” (see Audrey Gadzekpo’s paper “The Hidden History of Gender in Ghanaian Print Culture”).

11) Ama Biney. “The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah.”

12) J.D.Y. Peel (ed) & J.F. Ade Ajayi (ed). “People and Empires in African History: Essays in Memory of Michael Crowder.” (see LaRay Denzer’s paper “Gender and Decolonization: A Study of Three Women in West African Public Life,” p. 217-236).

13) Cheryl Johnson-Odim. “For Their Freedoms: The Anti-Imperialist and International Feminist Activity of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria.” “Women’s Studies International Forum 32 (2009), p. 51-59.

14) L.W. Conolly (ed) & Eugene Benson (ed). “Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures.”

15) Toyin Falola & Steven J. Salm. “Culture and Customs of Ghana.”

16) Cheikh Anta Diop. “African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality.”

17) Cheikh Anta Diop. “Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology”

18) Cheikh Anta Diop. “The Cultural Unity of Black Africa: The Domains of Matriarchy & of Patriarchy in Classical Antiquity."

19) Helen Yitah. “Strong-Headed and Masculine Hearted Women: Female Subjectivity in Mabel Dove-Danquah’s Fiction.”

20) Helen Yitah. “‘The More Storytellers, The Better’: Diversity, Ghanaian Literature and Mabel Dove-Danquah’s Fiction.”

21) Oyekan Owomoyela. “The Columbia Guide to West African Literature in English Since 1945.”

22) Charlortte H. Bruner (ed). “Unwinding Threads: Writing by Women in Africa.”

23) “Gold Coast’s First Assembly Woman.” West African Review. September 1954, p. 829.

24) Margaret Busby. "Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present"

Please, go and read Mabel's works and you will find her multiple "voices" since she did not have one as your imply in your overly simplistic comment. If you do so, you may even find some major disagreements with me on what I may have said about her multiple "voices." You may also have a reason(s) to disagree or question the bases of conclusions reached by these other authors mentioned above and what they have to say about Mabel's multiple "voices."

I hope you have a sense by now as to why writers (like me) don't always have to tell readers everything. You should go a step further and learn that yourself. My saying anything about Mabel's multiple "voices" won't necessarily constitute the final word as far as the debate goes!

After all, finding an author’s “voice” or “voices’ is one of the most basic things we all studied in high school! Is it not? Go and read her works and come back and share your take on her "voice," if you think she had only one, with me and those interested in the subject matter. And when you do, please make sure you do so, I mean this simple of most high-school tasks, in a vigorous "scholarly" fashion!
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