The truth is no matter how often the media attempts to mute our voices and discredit our influence, pop culture is irrelevant without black women.

The truth is no matter how often the media attempts to mute our voices and discredit our influence, pop culture is irrelevant without black women.
It would be hard for anyone to finish Dear Senthuran without a change—a change in perspective, understanding, knowledge. Knowing your identity is one thing, but living it is another. Emezi does both.
A rich resource that allows Nigeria’s queer women to speak their truths as honestly, as openly, and as safely as they can.
Love in Colour challenges you to be loved loudly and unashamedly. Bolu Babalola wants readers to know that to love is to see, and to be loved is to be seen.
Solitude is the real story of In Every Mirror She’s Black, a unique distillation of commercial and literary fiction that ultimately hits like a tragedy.
An insightful read for anyone who wants a broader perspective on what it’s like to travel in a world that privileges some, but restricts many others.
Who and what are we the product of, and what is the future of this current birthing? I want us to exercise patience as we wait for the arrival of answers.
This book reminds Black women that we are not superheroes, thus we should not treat ourselves or allow others to treat us as such.
You may laugh, you may tear up a little, and you just might remember long-forgotten lessons from your younger self.
Home is Not a Country is told through the eyes of Nima, a Muslim American girl who finds herself longing to be someone else.
A fast-paced coming-of-age story about music, the loss of innocence, and the dangers lurking in the shadows of the entertainment industry.
A modern take on the origin story of Kenya’s Gĩkũyũ people, The Perfect Nine is one of those rare books about history that has, itself, made history.
The Fortune Men is a historical fiction set in 1950s Cardiff that explores the real and distressing story of Mahmood Mattan, the last man to be hanged in Wales.
Edited by Nana-Ama Danquah, Accra Noir's writers spin a complex and fantastical web of love, intrigue, drama, and crime.
When No One Is Watching makes it clear that there are heavy physical and emotional tolls to be paid for choosing to actively participate in a history and present of injustice.
The stories within Addis Ababa Noir will shock, scar, and haunt you. This is a place where myth comes to life and shadow walks on its own.
Following Welcome to Lagos, Sankofa marks a departure from Lagosian life and tells the story of a mixed-race British woman's search for her long-lost West African father.
Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, this is a cynical coming-of-age story that zeroes in on corruption in 70s and 80s Congo-Brazzaville.
The Emperor’s Babe is an irreverent and salacious romp that merges the traditional and the contemporaneous in a startlingly unique way.
Bad Love has a somewhat misleading title. Though it is about how we hurt and are hurt in love, it is ultimately about the resilience of love across space and time.
Black Boy Out of Time is an eloquent and enlightening testament to the ways in which Black authors recraft genre categories that are not truly interested in telling our stories.
Johny Pitts leads the way in spotlighting the flavour and entangled histories of Europe's Black communities through what may be one of the most comprehensive and transnational studies on the subject to date.
Set in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, this is a book for the sisters who are tired of being strong, for the sisters who have no interest in conditional humanity.
Pride is a deeply representative retelling that foregrounds Black people’s right to exist in a canon that has always pretended they do not.
People like to say that love sees no colour, that love is blind. True as that may be, it is also true that love is about seeing.