This past weekend was spent getting my hair done. Right now, I have on some jumbo Senegalese twists. I’m loving my hair and feeling very ready for Valentine’s Day. Speaking of Val Day, I’ve been thinking about love tokens inspired by African literature 🙂 What came to mind was a bouquet of flowers consisting of flowers featured in […]
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Five Mind-bending and Mood-altering African Novels
Sleepwalking Land (1999) by Mia Cuto, Mozambique A boy and an old man are survivors in a post-apocalyptic, war-ravaged town. They stumble upon a burned-out bus and decide to make it home. While clearing out the corpses trapped and burned in the bus, they find a journal kept by one of the dead passengers, […]
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