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Murder, Motives, and Modern Ghana: Kwei Quartey’s Death at the Voyager Hotel
In the swelling tide of African crime fiction, few writers have staked their claim as confidently as Kwei Quartey. With
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Even When Your Voice Shakes and the Quiet Rebellion of a Ghanaian Girlhood
In Ruby Yayra Goka’s Even When Your Voice Shakes, a young Ghanaian girl finds her voice in a world designed
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Fine Boys by Eghosa Imasuen:The Unflinching Portrait of Nigerian Youth and the Pursuit of Identity
At the heart of Eghosa Imasuen’s Fine Boys lies a burning question: what does it mean to be young in
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The Mirror and the Myth: On Lola Akinmade Åkerström’s In Every Mirror She’s Black
There are certain books you stumble on at just the right time when you’ve grown weary of polite optimism, when
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Queerness in Rehearsal: Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr. Loverman
In Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr. Loverman, the literary tradition of the aging patriarch; the Lear, the Scobie, the Stevens, gets a
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Fragments and Footsteps: A Family Reassembled in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go
Taiye Selasi’s debut novel, Ghana Must Go, is a portrait of a family in disarray, meticulously stitched together with the
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Bisa Adjapon’s Daughter in Exile: A Story of Borders, Belonging, and the Cost of Freedom
What happens when home turns its back on you, and the place you run to barely lets you breathe? Bisa
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The Fragile Work of Belated Love: On Yewande Omotoso’s An Unusual Grief
Grief is never punctual. It arrives late, sometimes decades after the wound has been made, and it lingers longer than
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The Heat Beneath the City: James Baldwin’s Another Country
The novel begins with a fall. Rufus, a young Black jazz drummer, wanders the cold streets of Greenwich Village, unmoored
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Becoming Maame, and the Weight of Wanting More…
By the time Maddie Wright learns to say no, the word catches in her throat like a bone. For most
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The Silent Mechanics of Conscience
More than sixty years after its publication, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird remains both a cultural touchstone and a
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Salt in the Wound, Light in the Dark: Sabaa Tahir’s All My Rage
In the luminous wreckage of Sabaa Tahir’s All My Rage, one finds not merely a coming-of-age tale, but a narrative
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A Borderless Solitude: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea
In Abdulrazak Gurnah’s quietly stunning novel, By the Sea, the act of telling one’s story becomes both confession and resistance,
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Saltwater Memory: On Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef
Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef, first published in 1994 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year, is a novel of quiet
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You Are the Place You’re Looking For: Finding Home in Zainab Takes New York
There’s something disarmingly earnest about Zainab Sekyi. She’s not jaded. She doesn’t posture. She believes, perhaps foolishly, that a city
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