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A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa– Alexis Okeowo
“There is never a single story about any place,” stated the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in a powerful Ted Talk almost 10 years ago. The danger of having a single story of Africa, she argues, is that we lose the diversity and beauty of the many different people, situations, and stories. They are consumed by a single, negative narrative. That’s why Alexis 
Okeowo’s A Moonless, Starless Sky is so important. In this non-fiction book, Okeowo breaks down the media’s single narrative of places like northern Nigeria by simply telling stories. She takes the readers into regions portrayed by news headlines as catastrophes and war zones, and tells us stories of love, courage, and faith.
Okeowo is a Nigerian-American journalist, who grew up in Alabama and moved to Uganda and then Nigeria as a young adult to experience her family’s homeland. Read more
For the Entrepreneur:
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For Financial Literacy:
The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey
For Casual Reading:
A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest J. Gaines
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa– Alexis Okeowo
All About Love: New Visions – bell hooks
Another Country – James Baldwin
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Black Reconstruction in America – W. E. B. Du Bois
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America – Patrick Phillips
Brown Girl, Brownstones – Paule Marshal
Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi
Free Food for Millionaires– Min Jin Lee
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
Halsey Street – Naima Coster
Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Jazz– Toni Morrison
MamChild in the Promised Land – Claude Brown
Native Son – Richard Wright
Notes of a Native Son – James Baldwin
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
Reconstruction – Eric Foner
Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
Swing Time – Zadie Smith
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
The Belles – Dhonielle Clayton
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
The First Bad Man – Miranda July
The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
The Vegetarian – Han Kang
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement – Wesley Lowery
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
2 Comments
Natasha · August 7, 2017 at 7:23 pm
Also for financial literally, Total Money Makeover!! Great list !
Daniella Lomo · August 8, 2017 at 9:44 am
Hi Natasha!
Thank you for the suggestion! I’ll definitely have to check that one out.
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Thanks again!