Our goal for African Women’s Studies History Reading Month is to work towards study and dialogue between us in regards to the role and history of African women and our current State of Affairs.  We need to know where we are going and where we have been.  Knowing where we are going is imperative, as we work towards moving forward as a united people.

March is Women’s History Month, and we want April to be a time for reading, reflecting and dialoguing sensitive and timely issues that we can no longer avoid, the exploitation of African Women and children.

Crossing Borders – NYC, has been working towards ‘The Day of the African Child’ for June 16, 2007, and it became clear to us, that it is imperative that we understand the trials and tribulations of African Women whether here in the U.S., our traditional homeland Africa and other parts of the diaspora; especially after the Imus fallout and the global degradation and prostitution of African women and children.  

We are building a list of reading material and want your input.  Please email us at belriver@aol.com for any suggestions that you might have, and also tell us why you think a particular book should be read so that we can share your thoughts with readers.

Crossing Borders - NYC - is building a Community Reading Room in Brazzaville, Congo and if you having any books to donate please email us. It is very important that Africans on the continent and in the diaspora  know more about each others’ history and mutual history.

Significant Authors

Authors:

Bell hooks

Michelle Wallace

Johnnetta Betsch Cole

Beverly Guy-Sheftall

We need to study and dialogue as a people.

The research has been done, but has been overlooked and seen as insignificant.

Let us get to reading, talking and doing.

You can find out more about Crossing Borders by going to our website,

https://brazzaville.tripod.com/