AFRICA IN WORDS

Week 21: Upile Chisala @BeingUpile (Malawi) 🇲🇼 – ‘Soft Magic’. What a great find! Bite-sized poetry to empower and celebrate Black women 🖤 Thank you! Rating: 📙 📙 📙 📙

Obsessed with @Nnedi Okorafor!! Rating: 📙 📙 📙 📙 📙Simply put, the Shuri series is wicked cool!! PS: Shuri #8 came out this year!Encouraging more African authored comic 📚’s- don’t

The Next 25 Years of South Africa’s Democracy In the next 25 years I will be 43I will be telling my children stories about those before meThose that are Heroes

‘Binti’ (2015)- by Nnedi Okorafor ( 🇳🇬/ 🇺🇸). Incredible African science fiction writer found! Binti is a ‘harmonizer’ from a remote people whose bravery and curiosity are infectious. We follow

‘Teaching my mother how to give birth’ (2011) by Warsan Shire. A provocative peek into womanhood – you will feel understood and deeply moved. Notes: On 2014 she was named

Chinua Achebe 1930-2013 (Nigeria). Things Fall Apart-1958, No Longer at Ease-1960, Arrow of God-1964). Unparalleled storytelling on the impact of colonization through generations. First, an insight into pre-colonial Nigeria &

Week 11: ‘The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela’ (2018) by Sisonke Msimang (South Africa). The first thoughts that popped into my head was: ‘she lived an unapologetic life’. A well balanced

Week 10: ‘Unbowed’ (2006) by Wangari Maathai (Kenya 🇰🇪) . Inspiring book as told by the founder of the Green Belt Movement, & Nobel Prize Laureate (2004). A memoir of

Week 9: ‘Purple Hibiscus’ (2003) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria 🇳🇬). Her first novel – I must reveal I never read it until now! – it is the tale of domestic