Margaret Busby on New Daughters of Africa, sponsorship of women's football

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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'New Daughters of Africa' features more than 200 writers from more than 50 countries. Its editor, Margaret Busby and Candice Carty-Williams, who has contributed to the collection, discuss why such a rich tradition of writing by women of African descent has been overlooked and if this is finally changing. Children have always fallen out with their friends, but how can you support your child if you feel they aren’t fitting in? And can you help your child make friends? Tanith Carey, author of ‘The Friendship Maze’ and Dr Angharad Rudkin, Clinical Child Psychologist at the University of Southampton discuss what parents can do. Evidence is crucial when prosecuting domestic violence cases, but often survivors and witnesses find it difficult to remember exact dates and incidents of abuse. We hear about one app that has been developed to deal with this challenge with funding from Comic Relief. The England women's football team has set its sights on winning the World Cup. The players will be in a kit designed by Nike, who’ll also sponsor fourteen national kits, in the tournament in France this Summer. Adidas have said that all 2019 World Cup winning team mates will receive the same performance bonus payout as their male peers. Rebecca Myers, a Sunday Times sports journalist explains the significance of big brand sponsorship.

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0:47.0	Today the app that will record episodes of domestic violence.
0:51.0	It's funded by comic relief and will help provide evidence in any legal proceedings.
0:57.7	The future of women's football has the World Cup approaches what will be the impact of big brands offering serious sponsorship deals?
1:07.0	And for parents, how can you help a child who's finding it difficult to make friends? In 1992 the writer and publisher Margaret Busby
1:16.3	edited a huge anthology of writing called Daughters of Africa. It features work
1:22.3	by 200 women from Africa and the African diaspora and included
1:27.2	pieces by women who are now some of the most celebrated in the world, Maya Angelou,
1:32.0	Tony Morrison, Bell Hooks, Audrey Lord, Angela Davies,
1:36.1	Alice Walker and a very young Jackie Kaye. Margaret has now edited New D daughters of Africa with another 200 writers from 50
1:46.4	countries including Chimamanda and Gosey Adiche, Mallory Blackman, Andrea Levy
1:52.2	and Zady Smith.
1:53.7	Candice Carter Williams is also in the anthology
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