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booksforblkwomen · 9 months

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Hi there! 👋

I’m Lydia and I’ve always been an avid reader🤓

Fun fact: I worked as a bookseller this past spring and loved it so much I decided to create this book club 😊

This blog will be used to share the books read within my book club throughout the year! 📚

Feel free to click the link below to join us:

This is the book list for the year:

Black Girls Guide To Financial Freedom

Black Girls Must Series

A Coastline is An Immeasurable Thing

The Teller of Secrets

Black Girls Who Read Series

How We Heal Alexandra Elle

Reclamation by Gayle Jessup White

Restore: A Lost Girl’s Journey to Hope

Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics

Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues

The House on Sugar Beach

Homebound

Extras:

Finding Me: Viola Davis

You Should Sit Down For This: Tamera Mowry

Becoming by Michelle Obama

The Garden Within by Dr Anita Phillips

Woman Evolve by Sarah Jakes Roberts

If you have any questions or comments or suggestions of books feel free to reach out ✨

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ya-world-challenge · 2 years

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YA Books about 🇩🇿 Algeria

Master book list for the YA World Challenge for: 🇩🇿 Algeria

YA The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, Mackenzi Lee 🛩️⌛🌈 (Algerian secondary character)

NA / Coming-of-Age Some Dream for Fools, Faïza Guène 💚🛩️ Men Don't Cry, Faïza Guène 💚🛩️ A Bookshop in Algiers, Kaouther Adimi 💚 Algeria is Beautiful Like America, Olivia Burton (GN)🏖️ Two Crosses, Elizabeth Musser 🏖️ I Die by This Country, Fawzia Zouari 💚

Memoir Tomboy, Nina Bouraoui 💚⌛🌈 All Men Want to Know, Nina Bouraoui 💚🌈 Sirocco: A French Girl Comes of Age in War-Torn Algeria ⌛ Algerian Childhood, Anthology 💚

Adult Authors to consider Yasmina Kadre Faïza Guène Aziz Chouaki Assia Djebar Boualem Sansal

💚 Native Author 🛩️ Immigrant or diaspora 🏖️ non-native characters in or about the country (ex. vacation/adventure) ⌛ Historical 🦋 Fantasy 🌈 LGBT

#book list #algeria #ya world challenge #ya books #african books #diverse books #poc lgbt #reading challenge #african fiction #africa #north africa

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rachel-sylvan-author · 3 months

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"The Girl with the Louding Voice" by Abi Dare

#Nigeria #Nigerian #Nigerian Women #Nigerian Childhood #Black Books #Black authors #African Books #African Authors #Women Books #Women Authors #Diverse Books #Diverse authors #Read Around the World

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djhamaradio · 3 months

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#duppy echoes #bookworm #African books #Francis Bebey

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respectyourlegacybooks · 7 months

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Dive into the captivating history of the Haitian Revolution! 📜✨ Explore the heroes and the resilience that changed the world forever. Join the movement for knowledge

#ExploreHistory #RevolutionaryLeaders #ChangeTheNarrative #HaitianRevolution #UncoverThePast #EpicJourney #DiveIntoHistory #WitnessBravery #african books #HaitianHistory #RevolutionaryLegacy #HeroicStruggles #TimelessCourage #EducateInspire #KnowYourRoots

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iambrillyant · 7 months

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“never underestimate the power of kindness and your ability to transform someone’s entire world just by treating them with a little softness.”

— iambrillyant

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madamzea · 7 months

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Hey !!!!!

If you’re a African-American Hoodoo practitioner, please do not get these three books, as they are written by white people who are doing digital blackface.

Hoodoo is a closed African-American spirituality practice that only African-Americans can practice. We do not have a lot of resources or books written by African-Americans so I will try to provide all the books that I use by actual African-Americans.

It’s upsetting that I find a book about Hoodoo thats written by a white person or a non-African-American person. I don’t like that.

Some African American Hoodoo authors I suggest are:

Stephanie Rose Bird

Monique Joiner Siedlak

and Tayannah Lee Mcquillar

#hoodoo #hoodoo book collection #hoodoobooklist #hoodooheritagemonth #hoodoo practitioner #hoodoo information #hoodoobooks #African American #aa #african american spirituality #rootwork #boost #viral #black spirituality #trending #soulaan #souls and #african american culture

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fyblackwomenart · 11 months

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"SZA, Muslim Women Are Everything" by Fahmida Azim on INPRNT

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itswadestore · 1 year

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From du twist à Cocody ou l’art de la natte de Diby Yao Christophe, Abidjan, 1972.

#du twist a cocody #african photographers #african hair braiding #vintage books

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southernmermaidsgrotto · 1 year

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Hoodoo, Rootwork and Conjure sources by Black Authors

Because you should only ever be learning your ancestral ways from kinfolk. Here's a compilation of some books, videos and podcast episodes I recommend reading and listening to, on customs, traditions, folk tales, songs, spirits and history. As always, use your own critical thinking and spiritual discernment when approaching these sources as with any others.

Hoodoo in America by Zora Neale Hurston (1931)

Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston (1936)

Tell my horse by Zora Neale Hurston (1938)

Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, editors (2003)

Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition by Yvonne P. Chireau (2006)

African American Folk Healing by Stephanie Mitchem (2007)

Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies by Faith Mitchell (2011)

Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System by Katrina Hazzard-Donald (2012)

Rootwork: Using the Folk Magick of Black America for Love, Money and Success by Tayannah Lee McQuillar (2012)

Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory among Gullah/Geechee Women by LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant (2014)

Working the Roots: Over 400 Years Of Traditional African American Healing by Michele Elizabeth Lee (2017)

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston (2018)

Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals by Luisa Teish (2021)

African American Herbalism: A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions by Lucretia VanDyke (2022)

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These are just some suggestions but there's many many more!! This is by no means a complete list.

I recommend to avoid authors who downplay the importance of black history or straight out deny how blackness is central to hoodoo. The magic, power and ashé is in the culture and bloodline. You can't separate it from the people. I also recommend avoiding or at the very least taking with a huge grain of salt authors with ties to known appropriators and marketeers, and anyone who propagates revisionist history or rather denies historical facts and spreads harmful conspiracy theories. Sadly, that includes some black authors, particularly those who learnt from, and even praise, white appropriators undermining hoodoo and other african and african diasporic traditions. Be careful who you get your information from. Keeping things traditional means honoring real history and truth.

Let me also give you a last but very important reminder: the best teachings you'll ever get are going to come from the mouths of your own blood. Not a book or anything on the internet. They may choose to put certain people and things in your path to help you or point you in the right direction, but each lineage is different and you have to honor your own. Talk to your family members, to the Elders in your community, learn your genealogy, divine before moving forwards, talk to your dead, acknowledge your people and they'll acknowledge you and guide you to where you need to be.

May this be of service and may your ancestors and spirits bless you and yours 🕯️💀

#hoodoo #conjure #rootwork #black hoodoo authors #Youtube #hoodoo books #african american conjure #african american history #black history #black folklore #african american folklore #black magic #african american magic #witches of color #ATRs #Spotify

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nemfrog · 8 months

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African fauna. The winners in life's race. 1891. Book cover.

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#book cover #covers #gold gilt #african fauna #animals #watering hole #gireffe #elephant #rhino #hippo #nemfrog #1891 #19th century

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ya-world-challenge · 5 months

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Book Review: Entwined by Cheryl S. Ntumy ( 🇧🇼 Botswana)

[image 1: book cover: closeup on a Black teen girl who looks to the side as two shadowed figures stand in the woods behind her; image 2: map showing Botswana, a land-locked country just north of South Africa; image 3: the inside of a modern shopping mall in Gaborone, Botswana, source unknown]

Entwined

Author: Cheryl S. Ntumy

YA World Challenge read for 🇧🇼 Botswana

Review

I quite enjoyed this paranormal mystery with a side of cute romance (or was it a cute romance with a side of paranormal?) High-schooler Connie wakes up with sudden mind-reading powers, and finds she has more than just that to deal with when the local tween girl gang at the mall starts acting strange.

While slow to get to a start, the story was altogether entertaining. Surprisingly, I liked Rakwena, the mysterious tattooed boy, and how he was completely different from his ‘reputation’. The modern African city setting is rare for the genre. I loved Connie’s big-sister caring for the younger girls. It really showed her personality and is a relationship type that often gets overlooked in YA.

On the paranormal side, I was a little disappointed that there was little history or background to the ‘powers’ that everyone was using. (Not saying everything needs to be a stereotyped ‘ancient gods magic’, on the other hand.) Though with her wise grandfather and mysterious boyfriend perhaps that potential is waiting for the next book.

If you want some fairly low-stakes paranormal mystery with a stubborn protagonist and a cute romance, along with a non-Anglo-centric setting, do check this series out! I plan to pick up the next one when I can.

Other reps: #m/f #biracial

Genre: #paranormal #mystery #romance

#book review #african books #botswana #mystery books #contemporary fantasy #paranormal #mystery #romance #m/f #biracial #africa

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piroshky · 1 year

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Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, 2000.

#leo and diane dillon #jules verne #sci fi illustration #sci fi art #american art #african american art #book illustration #fantasy illustration #sea monsters #steampunk art #american illustration #art #illustration #my post

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rachel-sylvan-author · 4 months

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"The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide" by Nice Leng'ete

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pleasantphilosopherninja · 8 months

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Street Fighter Masters: Kimberly #1 variant cover by David Liu

#Kimberly Jackson #American/African-American #American #Chinese #Chun-Li #capcom #street fighter series #street fighter 6 #Street fighter comic books #David Liu #the new chun li #Street fighter comics

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iambrillyant · 8 months

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“self sabotage comes in the form of making irrational excuses for people who consistently hurt you or let you down. never fall into the habit of allowing your kindness to be misused by anyone who knows how great your capacity for forgiveness is.”

— iambrillyant

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