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Poetry
Questions for Ada
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Love Handles
Puno Selesho
Intwasa Poetry
Various Authors
Beating The Graves
Tsitsi Jaji
Uprooted
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
Questions for Ada
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Love Handles
Puno Selesho
Intwasa Poetry
Various Authors
Beating The Graves
Tsitsi Jaji
Uprooted
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
Questions for Ada
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Love Handles
Puno Selesho
Intwasa Poetry
Various Authors
Beating The Graves
Tsitsi Jaji
Uprooted
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
Questions for Ada
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Love Handles
Puno Selesho
Intwasa Poetry
Various Authors
Beating The Graves
Tsitsi Jaji
Uprooted
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
Questions for Ada
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Love Handles
Puno Selesho
Intwasa Poetry
Various Authors
Beating The Graves
Tsitsi Jaji
Uprooted
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
Questions for Ada
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Love Handles
Puno Selesho
Intwasa Poetry
Various Authors
Beating The Graves
Tsitsi Jaji
Uprooted
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
2021 Reading List
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
The Lion and The Jewel
Wole Soyinka
When Rain Clouds Gather
Bessie Head
The First Woman
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi
Daring Greatly
Brené Brown
Happiness
Aminatta Forna
Chigozie Obioma
An Orchestra of Minorities
My Sister, The Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Perfect Nine
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Turquoise Dreams - Anthology of short stories
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
Intruders
Mohale Mashigo
Love in Colour
Bolu Babalola
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernadine Evaristo
Necessary Endings
Henry Cloud
If You Keep Digging
Keletso Mopai
Collective Amnesia
Koleka Putuma
All About Love
Bell Hooks
Twenty Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing
Various Authors
Brass Neck
Victoria Naa Takia Nunoo
Selected Poems
Gwendolyn Brooks
Nikki Giovanni’s Collected Poetry (1968 -1998)
Nikki Giovanni
Uprooted
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
No Roses From My Mouth
Dr. Stella Nyanzi
Earthling Poems
Alice Walker
Short Stories
Come Write Along (Volume 1)
Bhala Writers
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
Ama Ata Aidoo
The Sex Lives of African Women- Self-Discovery, Freedom and Healing
Nana Darkoa Sekyiama
Bringing Us Back
Mercy Dhliwayo
