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Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016.Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British governor in charge of Cape Coast Castle, while her half-sister Esi is held ...
Yaa Gyasi (born 1989) is a Ghanaian American novelist. Her work, most notably her 2016 debut novel Homegoing and her 2020 novel Transcendent Kingdom, features themes of lineage, generational trauma, and Black and African identities. [ 1 ][ 2 ] At the age of 26, Gyasi won the National Book Critics Circle 's John Leonard Award for Best First Book ...
The Road Is Good by Uzo Aduba. penguinrandomhouse.com. $30.00. More. Uzo Aduba was once told by a would-be talent agent to change her Nigerian name and to fix the gap in her front teeth. She did ...
Things Fall Apart is the first novel by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It portrays the life of Okonkwo, a traditional influential leader of the fictional Igbo clan, Umuofia. He is a feared warrior and a local wrestling champion who opposed the European colonialism and Christian missionaries. An early modernist novel, it received positive ...
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, published in 1986, is the fifth book in African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou's seven-volume autobiography series. Set between 1962 and 1965, the book begins when Angelou is 33 years old, and recounts the years she lived in Accra, Ghana. The book, deriving its title from a Negro spiritual, begins ...
The Book Thief is a historical fiction novel by the Australian author Markus Zusak, set in Nazi Germany during World War II. Published in 2005, The Book Thief became an international bestseller and was translated into 63 languages and sold 17 million copies.
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The Church of God in Christ(COGIC) is an international Holiness–PentecostalChristian denomination,[2][4]and a large Pentecostal denomination in the United States.[5] Although an international and multi-ethnic religious organization, it has a predominantly African-American membershipbased within the United States.