▪︎The setting is not during trans atlantic slave trade, civil rights movement, or anything else akin to current real life setting oppression the main character is experiencing
▪︎No magic/ghosts/vampire/supernatural type stuff
▪︎No smut/explicit romance
The genres can be fiction or nonfiction. Please let me know your recommendations!
by GuavaBlackTea0
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Shauna Robinson books
The Cobweb by Stephenson & etc (novel) is about the first black woman US president.
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen. Lots of melodrama, lots of interest, at least for me; I’ve heard her book Motherhood is good, too.
Paulina Chiziane, The First Wife. She’s from Mozambique, and the book had to be translated into English from Portuguese, but I thought it was HILARIOUS. A very different culture, Mozambique of the time of which she writes!
Sindiwe Magona, Living, Loving, and Lying Awake at Night — this is more of an interconnected set of stories, but the primary characters are black women and I enjoyed it a lot.
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Let’s Tell This Story Properly — I seem to recall this was a collection of short stories in two parts: the first part Ugandans in the UK, and their life there; the second part Ugandans who have returned to Uganda from the UK, and how their lives were different after they went back.
And all these books will give you very different perspectives on the lives of African women, as well as your own life, too!
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. A mystery about twin girls, i was engrossed by this book!