African


Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Americanah
Half of a Yellow Sun
Homegoing
Purple Hibiscus
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Disgrace
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
We Should All Be Feminists
Nervous Conditions
Stay with Me
The Thing Around Your Neck
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Abiola Abrams
Some of us have been hiding, shrinking, betraying ourselves, faking the funk, and playing small for so long that we believe that we are small. That shrunken self is not you. That shrunken self is a persona you created to survive.
Abiola Abrams, African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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