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Book Feature

Disability, Black Womanhood, and African Spirituality in Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women’s Writing

by Jagravi Dave

Book Feature June 06, 2022

Ghanaian Poet Ama Asantewa Diaka’s Woman, Eat Me Whole is a Meditation on Womanhood

by Brittle Paper

Book Feature May 30, 2022

Kemi Alabi’s Against Heaven Asks Illuminating Questions About God and Spirituality

by Brittle Paper

Book Feature May 19, 2022

A Character is Caught in a Romantic Dilemma in Aiwanose Odafen’s Tomorrow I Become A Woman

by Alesia Alexander

Book Feature May 17, 2022

Lisa-Anne Julien’s Debut Novel If You Save Me Explores Trans-Continental Human Connections

by Alesia Alexander

Book Feature • Home • Lead Post May 12, 2022

Saleh Addonia’s Life Experiences as a Refugee Inspires the Stories in His Debut Collection The Feeling House

by Alesia Alexander

Book Feature April 14, 2022

Scholastique Mukasonga’s The Barefoot Woman Tells Her Mother’s Story During the Rwandan Civil War

by Brittle Paper

Book Feature March 31, 2022

Dress Me In Disobedience is Ugandan Poet Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva’s Latest Poetry Collection

by Alesia Alexander

Book Feature March 29, 2022

14th-century Mali is the Inspiration for Sylvie Kandé’s The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore

by Alesia Alexander