Prelude: 'I've come to take you home" / by Diana Ferrus -- Introduction: claiming Sarah Baartman: a legacy to grasp / Natasha Gordon-Chipembere -- 'Body' of evidence: Saartjie Baartmann and the ...
Correspondent Karen Grigsby Bates speaks with Elizabeth Alexander, a poet and a Yale University professor of African-American studies, about the tragedy of Sarah Baartman, a young South African woman ...
Hottentot Venus, by Barbara Chase-Riboud (Anchor, $13). Setting: Cape Town, London and Paris, 1806-1814. Sarah Baartman, given the "name song" Ssehura by her Khoekhoe mother, is best known to history ...