A review by dananana
Call Me Woman by Ellen Kuzwayo

4.5

This book was incredible. I got it from a bookshop in Durban and have been reading it over the course of the last few weeks. I loved it straight from the beginning because the author outlines how apartheid specifically affected black women in South Africa. She talked about the troubles she’s had to deal with as a black woman, the problems that affected the entire black community, and the work that she and other black women were doing to fill in the too-large gaps that the government purposefully left. I’ve read a few history books and articles about SA that have all been really good but I didn’t have this perspective in so much detail before and it’d actually been something I was looking for. I’m glad I found this book.