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“Sometimes in life, we have to take a stand. It does not help to sit on the fence, even if we have to hurt the people we love-love. That is what I want you to remember. If I have taught you anything, I want it to be that.”
― Night Dancer
― Night Dancer
“Determination makes one impervious to pain.”
― Night Dancer
― Night Dancer
“Life is like a set of false teeth. The world sees what you show it: Clean teeth wey white like Colgate. But you know for inside dat your real teet' don rot finish!”
― On Black Sisters Street
― On Black Sisters Street
“Guilt is born in the same hour with pleasure, like anything in this universe and its enemy.”
― Changes: A Love Story
― Changes: A Love Story
“You children, you forget that no matter how high the okra tree grows, it's never mightier than the hand that planted it.”
― Night Dancer
― Night Dancer
The Ìtàn Kíkà Group
— 9 members
— last activity Sep 22, 2023 04:16PM
Ìtàn Kíkà in Yoruba means story reading or fiction reading. Through the Ìtàn Kíkà group the aim is to encourage reading of accomplished African fictio ...more
60 Africa Books Reading Challenge
— 48 members
— last activity Apr 09, 2025 02:08AM
This group is reading 60 books set in Africa, one from each country and filling in the rest with reads encompassing the ethos of Africa. Our main focu ...more
Yvana’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Yvana’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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127 friends
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