Quotes from The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
“Wuraola.’ Her grandfather’s voice was serious now. …Two hungry people should never make friends. If they do they eat each other up. It is the...
Author : Meserette Kentake
Indaba My Children: African Folktales
As a young man, Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, a Zulu from the South African province of Natal, was determined to follow in the footsteps of his...
The Bondwoman’s Narrative
The Bondwoman’s Narrative tells the story of Hannah Crafts, a young enslaved woman working on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, who runs away in a...
The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors
“There is no mental health for Black people without understanding racism and white supremacy; it is the major origin of stress that impact us. There...
Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children
Afrikan children are naturally precocious and gifted. They begin life with a “natural head start.” However, their natural genius it too frequently underdeveloped and misdirected...
The Hero with an African Face
“Discovering a deeply meaningful African myth is like finding an old snapshot of myself in a place long forgotten…. These myths are more than just...
Hitler’s Black Victims
Drawing on interviews with the Black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and Africa, Hitler’s Black Victims by Clarence Lusane, documents and...
Roots
“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage – to know who we are and where we came from....
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett Jr. traces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the transatlantic journey that ended in slavery, the...
Two Thousand Seasons
“If there is only one book within this collection that one must read, this is it.” –Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books “That...