https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZEh_UcJLjw A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his brother, and himself, amid the chaos
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Synopsis: About one woman’s fine, hard life at the racetrack, Kick the Latch–with its ruthless concision and artful mysteries–is lightning in a
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Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki’s love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind. Over twenty-four
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j193Ltk-D_Y “Rebeca Omordia performs Nocturne no. 6 “La Montagne d’Imsfrane” by Nabil Benabdeljalil, part of her African Pianism recital at The Phillips
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“A shape-shifting novel about the power of stories…Helen Oyeyemi is a literary pied piper — her voice is the kind that readers
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The travel memoir of a Nigerian woman in China exploring the intersections and divides between the two cultures and the lives of
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BIOGRAPHY Herman “Kofi” Bailey 1931-1981 “Herman “Kofi” Bailey was born in 1931 in Chicago, Illinois and studied at Alabama State College, later
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Summary: Yoruba legend and culture were the source of much of Amos Tutuola’s writing and the stories collected here are no exception.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYkQXV7uiYM “A lost masterpiece of American literature about the creative evolution of a young Black woman in California and her intense relationship
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