num_pages: 200
description: A compelling and unique autobiography by an African woman with little formal education, less privilege, and almost no experience of books or writing. Mpho's voice is a voice almost never heard in literature or history, a voice from within the struggle of ""ordinary"" African women to negotiate a world which incorporates ancient pastoral ways and the congestion, brutality, and racist violence of city life. It is also the voice of a born storyteller who has a subject worthy of her gifts - a story for all the world to hear.
language: English
title: Singing Away the Hunger : The Autobiography of an African Woman
titlecomplete: Singing Away the Hunger : The Autobiography of an African Woman
genres: 20th Century, Biography, Anthropology, South Africa, Autobiography, Lesotho, Womens, Africa, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 224
publisher: Indiana University Press