Really enjoyed this #BBCRadio4 #BookOfTheWeek episode of “The West - a new history of an old idea”
by Naoise MacSweeney. It was about #Njinga, Queen of Ndongo in #Angola who defied Portuguese imperialists; and about #PhyllisWheatley an #AfricanAmerican enslaved as a 7yo in West Africa, who at 18yo published a book of #poetry that challenged all ideas of Western (white) superiority and claims to a classical heritage.

#Slavery #West #USHistory #BlackHistory

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001m5pn?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

On the discovery of a new Phillis Wheatley (Peters) poem by scholar Wendy Roberts. It's an intriguing story illustrating how manuscript poems often circulated via small coteries in the 18th century...

#18thcentury #PhyllisWheatley #AfricanAmerican #poetry #LitStudies

https://www.albany.edu/news-center/news/2023-ualbany-professor-finds-new-poem-famed-early-american-poet-phillis-wheatley?mibextid=Zxz2cZ&fbclid=IwAR1FXWD58qA297Q1Ma1VrpLP7yKjID9g1PdFLLuqB9ZAQvGE6t2YIpHKgGE