Skin of the sea
Book by Natasha Bowen, 2021 Our world is full of repeating patterns that we discover in nature and that we create Esu This is a fantasy book set in colonial times, when Nigeria had her own deities and Gods aka…
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On beauty by Zadie Smith
They are the damned and so their sadness is perfect, delicate as an egg placed in your palm. Hard, it is decorated with their face. I was apprehensive coming into this book purely because of the size of it! After…
Dear Ijeawele – A Feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“My hope for Chizalum is this: she will be full of opinions, and that her opinions will come from an informed, humane and broad-minded place.” I wanted to read this book as I am always fully engaged whenever I’m watching…
Staying Power by Peter Fryer
This book had been referenced by so many black British authors, so I immediately added it to my list, not knowing how extensive it was! The authors mentioned that if you truly want to know about the history of black…
Giovanni’s Room
This was a great book to continue my reading of James Baldwin. This book shows his range as a great writer to me, as previously I was only accustomed to seeing Baldwin write and talk about the civil rights movement.…
The Summer of Impossible Things by Rowan Coleman
“It probably didn’t help that I told him my secret. I shouldn’t have told him. That just after Mum died something started happening to me that hadn’t happened since I was a little girl. That sometimes, more and more just…
Think Like A White Man – Nels Abbey
“Remember, that at the end of the day there is nothing wrong with you. You are trying to navigate a social order and stigma that predated you and will continue after you. In a normal and just world, you wouldn’t…
The Souls of Black Folk – W. E. B. Du Bois
“The masters and the masters’ sons have never been able to see why the Negro, instead of settling down to be day labourers for bread and clothes, are infected with a silky desire to rise in the world.” As mentioned…
Shankly – My Story
Do you ever start reading a book and accidentally read a couple of words in front of where you are at cos you’re that excited by the content? For all that he built and achieved, Shankly has immortalised himself into…
My sister the serial killer
I had been waiting to read this for a long time. Over the months we’ve been in lockdown, I’ve been buying a lot of books, but instead of reading them, I have been watching a lot of documentaries! Plus some…