African Books. 📖

“He was reluctant to open it, for once such a thing is opened, it cannot be shut again.” - Cry, The Beloved Country. (Alan Paton)

African Books. 📖

“How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?” - Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

African Books. 📖

"He did not mention Papa—he hardly mentions Papa in his letters—but I knew what he meant, I understood that he was stirring what I was afraid to stir myself.” - Purple Hibiscus (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

African Books. 📖

“Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don’t teach boys to do the same?” - We Should All Be Feminists (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

African Books. 📖

“She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the shape of the sentence was destroyed.” - White Is for Witching (Helen Oyeyemi)

African Books. 📖

“You should talk to someone. The jokes don’t help much, but talking does.” - Children of Blood and Bone (Tomi Adeyemi)

African Books. 📖

“You humans and your binaries, Pet said. It is not a good thing or a bad thing. It is just a thing.” - (Akwaeke Emezi)

African Books. 📖

“Bitter knew her name was heavy, but she hadn’t minded, because it was honest. That was something she’d taught Jam—that a lot of things were manageable as long as they were honest.” - Akwaeke Emezi

African Books. 📖

“Bitter knew her name was heavy, but she hadn’t minded, because it was honest. That was something she’d taught Jam—that a lot of things were manageable as long as they were honest.” - (Akwaeke Emezi)

African Books. 📖

“There was something in him, lighter than ego but darker than insecurity, that needed constant buffing, polishing, waxing.” - Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)