Advocates are fighting entrenched traditions of forced marriage by providing shelters for abused women.
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Oshun
Orishá of fresh water, wealth and fertility
Oyá
Warrior orisa, Yoruba divinity of the winds of change
pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft
"It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion, that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness."
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
An Historic African Heroine
About Me
- Sabrina Gledhill
- Sabrina is a British scholar, translator and writer who was raised in Puerto Rico and educated in the US and UK. She recently resettled in the UK after living in Brazil for nearly 30 years. PhD in Ethnic and African Studies from CEAO/UFBA (2014). MA in Latin American Studies from UCLA (areas: History, Anthropology and Political Science). BA (First/Hons) in English from UCLA. Translator of over 30 books published in Brazil and the USA and author of numerous articles and book chapters on Afro-Brazilian history and the Black Atlantic. // Sabrina Gledhill é pesquisadora, tradutora e escritora. Inglesa, foi criada em Porto Rico e morou quase 30 anos no Brasil. Radicada na Inglaterra desde 2015. Tem graduação em Letras e mestrado em Estudos Latino-Americanos pela Universidade da Califórnia, Los Angeles - UCLA. Doutora em Estudos Étnicos e Africanos pelo Programa Multidisciplinar de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Étnicos e Africanos da Universidade Federal da Bahia. Tradutora de mais de 30 livros editados no Brasil e nos EUA e autora de vários textos acadêmicos e literários, com enfoque na cultura afro-brasileira e no Atlântico Negro.
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