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  • Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law, Book Cover
    Adults

    Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

    by Haben Girma

    Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an abiding strength as she absorbed her parents'...

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    Autobiography United States Characters with Physical Disabilities Characters with African Heritage
  • Homegoing, Book Cover
    Adults

    Homegoing

    by Yaa Gyasi

    Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in...

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    Historical Fiction West Africa Ghana Characters with African Heritage
  • Lilith's Brood, Book Cover
    Adults

    Lilith's Brood

    by Octavia E. Butler

    The acclaimed trilogy that comprises Lilith's Brood is Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler at her best.

    Lilith's Brood is a profoundly evocative, sensual — and disturbing — epic of human transformation.

    Lilith...

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    Science Fiction Earth Characters with African Heritage Characters with African American Heritage
  • All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, Book Cover
    Adults

    All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

    by Maya Angelou

    In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of "Revolutionist Returnees" inspired by the promise of pan-Africanism. All God's Children Need Walking...

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    Autobiography West Africa United States Characters with African Heritage Characters with African American Heritage
  • The Heart of a Woman, Book Cover
    Adults

    The Heart of a Woman

    by Maya Angelou

    In The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers, reads her work at the Harlem Writers Guild, and begins to take part...

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    Autobiography United States Characters with African Heritage Characters with African American Heritage
  • Wizard of the Crow, Book Cover
    Adults

    Wizard of the Crow

    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    A landmark of postcolonial African literature, Wizard of the Crow is an ambitious, magisterial, comic novel from the acclaimed Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and critic.

    Set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, Wizard...

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    Fantasy Magical Realism Kenya Fantasy World Characters with African Heritage
  • My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Book Cover
    Adults

    My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

    by Amos Tutuola

    My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying...

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    Fantasy Magical Realism Nigeria West Africa Fantasy World Characters with African Heritage
  • The Rage of Dragons (The Burning), Book Cover
    Adults

    The Rage of Dragons (The Burning)

    by Evan Winter

    The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable war for almost two hundred years. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform...

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    Fantasy South Africa Fantasy World Characters with African Heritage
  • Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts), Book Cover
    Teens & Young Adults

    Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts)

    by Nnedi Okorafor

    Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Her features are West African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then...

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    Fantasy Nigeria West Africa Characters with African Heritage
  • Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha Series), Book Cover
    Teens & Young Adults

    Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha Series)

    by Tomi Adeyemi

    Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.

    But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders...

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    Fantasy Nigeria West Africa Fantasy World Characters with African Heritage
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