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The Mirror and the Machete: Reading Our Sister Killjoy in a Fractured World
To read Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy: or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint today, nearly five decades after its
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Waking While Black: On Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count
In Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest offering, the Nigerian writer returns with the precise, humane intelligence that has defined
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In Between Lives: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Tender Study of Identity and Belonging
The Bengali-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri has made a quiet career of charting the interior landscapes of displacement. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning
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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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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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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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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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