It was neither purely a Nigerian immigrant story nor an African American romance, not even an urban tale. Reader, I decided to self-publish.
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“Books work better when illustrators are allowed to shape the story”: A conversation with Dapo Adeola
Dapo Adeola spills on everything from how the publishing industry mistreats its illustrators, to how he pulled off publishing an 18-illustrator picture book in under a year.
“We’re not getting fresh voices, we’re getting fresh faces”: A conversation with Formy Books
A sibling of publishers like Lantana and Knights Of, Formy Books are out to increase Black representation within children’s publishing. What makes them different is that they are a family-run CIC.
The publishing industry cannot continue to hide its anti-Blackness behind #BlackBestSeller
Readers should be asking how these Black-authored titles would be different if they were also Black-edited, Black-designed, and Black-publicised.
All I want for Christmas is the death of lazy, “diversity” language
All too often we scroll across well-meaning publishing people using POC when they mean Black, racism when they mean anti-Blackness.