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Orishá of fresh water, wealth and fertility
About Me
- Sabrina Gledhill
- Website: 5star.com.br Sabrina is a British scholar, translator and writer who was raised in Puerto Rico and educated in the US and UK. She has lived in Salvador, Bahia since December 1986. MA in Latin American Studies (1986) from UCLA (areas: History, Anthropology and Political Science). PhD candidate in Ethnic and African Studies at CEAO/UFBA. Translator of over 30 books published in Brazil and the USA. // Pesquisadora, tradutora e escritora inglesa, criada em Porto Rico. Instrução superior na Inglaterra e nos EUA. Mestre em Estudos Latino-Americanos pela UCLA (História, Antropologia e Ciência Política). Doutoranda em Estudos Étnicos e Africanos no CEAO/UFBA. Radicada na Bahia desde 1986. Tradutora de mais de 30 livros, publicados no Brasil e nos EUA.
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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
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