Love is a strange creature; it can make you blind, and it can make you see. Excerpt from Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones. Dana, Gwen, Chaurisse, Laverne, James, and Riley […]

I named you Patience because you took your time. Twelve hours of labor before you arrived. Can you imagine? There was no other name for you. Please understand that the […]

As independence approaches, will anyone remember us during this scramble for rights? We are not natives, and we are not Europeans. India has disowned us; Nehru calls us ‘guests of […]

Caught in a strife between her separated mother and father as well as an estranged relationship between her mother and grandmother, 13-year-old Simi finds herself in Ajao, a remote Nigerian […]

That was what I’d always loved about reading, what had driven me to write in the first place. That feeling that a new world was being spun like a spiderweb […]

The prophecy, like an angered beast, had gone berserk and was destroying his mind with the ferocity of madness . . . until all that he knew, all that was […]

Sulwe has skin the color of midnight. She is darker than her family. She is darker than anyone in her school. Sulwe just wants to be beautiful and bright like […]

You have no doubt heard the saying that knowledge is power. I disagree. Knowledge is only powerful if you use it, if you act on it. People spend lifetimes acquiring […]

The ultimate goal of apartheid was to make South Africa a white country, with every black person stripped of his or her citizenship and relocated to live in homelands, the […]

My regret is how hard we fought that night, over his parents, of all things. We had fought harder even before we married, when we were playing at love, but […]

I consciously began reading African literature and literature by authors of color during the 2020 pandemic lockdown, and I have never been happier. Most people I talk to aren’t aware […]

The years had passed in peace since the end of the war, yet all of them suspected that peace would not last. They’d listened to the canon fire for so […]

…but you cannot say no to your responsibilities. Why should your brother and sister be attending that Government School when they have a big sister like you in Accra who […]

Every time I switch on the television, there is always something negative to concentrate on. Every time I talk to people, be they black or white, there is always something […]

That’s how my story ends. With the loss of everyone I have ever loved. With me in a big, beautiful Upper East Side apartment, missing everyone who ever meant anything […]

This book is for brilliant women like you. I wrote it so that you can move forward in pursuing whatever calls to you, so that your greater gifts find expression. […]

Genre: Fiction Pages: 289 Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe Setting: Colonial Rhodesia 1960’s Themes: Colonialism, African Tradition; Religion ‘As if there’s everything to learn and I’ll never know it all. So, […]

Genre: Fiction Pages: 402 Author: Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-American Setting: Kabul, Afghanistan, Paris, America Themes: Family, love, loss ‘If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front […]

Genre: Fiction Pages: 208 pages Author: Sulaiman Addonai, Eritrean Setting: Sudan Themes: Refugee camp; Cross cultural marriage; Family; Love ‘If silence was a language, she would not have forced herself […]

Genre: Fiction Pages: 271 Author: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, Mombasa Setting: Mombasa coast Themes: Family, Adventure, Fantasy ‘Mombasa, will you forgive me my trespasses? So many try to escape you. If […]

Genre: Fiction Pages: 352 pages Author: Bisi Ajapon, Nigerian Setting: Ghana, Nigeria Themes: Adolescence, Family, Love, Pre and Post colonialism Oh my! The first book that made me laugh as […]

Genre: Fiction Pages: 188 Author: Rudo D M Manyere, Zimbawean Setting: Zimbabwe, United Kingdom Themes: Loss, Love, Colonialism ‘For you dear reader, I hope this gives you the courage to […]

Genre: Fiction/ Fantasy Pages: 358 Author: Okwiri Oduor, Kenyan Setting: Mapeli Town, Kenya (Fictional town) Themes: Death, Family, Love She wondered why the Jinamizi never brought her happy memories. Was […]

Genre: Fiction Pages: 296 Author: Francesca Ekwuyasi Setting: Lagos, Canada, London Themes: Loss, Death, Queer romance          Francesca delves into the lives of estranged identical twins, born in London and […]

Genre: Fiction Pages: 121 Setting: Buganda, Uganda. Themes: Religion, Death, African Traditional Practices Dreams from the soul is a captivating tale about the great ends to which Martha, the protagonist […]

Genre: Non-Fiction, Personal Growth Pages: 92 Author: Don Miguel Ruiz – Mexican ‘Language is the code for understanding and communication between humans. Every letter, every word in each language is […]

Genre: Fiction Setting: Ghana, United Kingdom Pages: 320 pages Author: Yaa Gyasi Triggers: Death, slavery, brutality ‘…This is the problem of history. We cannot know that which we were not […]