Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei- Brenyah showcases amazing imagination and brilliant, sincere storytelling . That good type of surreal you can believe in without too much effort. Futuristic doesn’t even capture it properly- it’s an illustration of an alternative,…
I loved My Brilliant Friend, it’s so beautifully written. The story telling feels like it’s from the heart without a care for what is expected. It feels like Ferrante is just telling a story how she wants to- that is…
I loved reading People From My Neighbourhood. I’ve never read anything by Hiromi Kawakami before and found this very clever and off-beat. ‘Delightful’ isn’t a word I use a lot but the brief, colourful stories made me smile- even laugh…
Death In The East is a story I was testing the waters with, I never read crime fiction! Historical fiction, however, I am completely into so thought I would give it a go. As far as introductions to a genre,…
The Book Of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka is a glimpse at generational trauma within the diaspora. From start to finish, I think ‘echoes’ was the perfect word to use. The book is narrated by the spirit of an enslaved ancestor,…
Maame Blue’s debut novel Bad Love is a romance. Not of the fluttering hearts and butterflies variety. Blue says it best herself: I’m not a romantic. But love- hard, bad, rough love- well, i could speak on that all day I…
Emecheta’s In The Ditch is the first in a line of brilliant titles by the author It’s hard to know where to begin with this one! With every page turned, I became more convinced that everyone should read it. At…
June is over but these are a few more titles by Caribbean writers I have on my shelf to read…. Aunt Jen by Paulette Ramsay There are so many narratives discussing the immigrant experience but rarely do we hear the…
Augustown is one of my favourite stories, I just love everything about it. I’m probably not even going to be able to do Kei Miller justice in this post because it’s been two years since I read it. It was…
OK. The themes covered in this book: ancestry, colonialism, the Western eye on African arts, familial obligation, coming of age, identity, Ghanaian society and tradition. All of this made me like the idea of this story more than the reality…