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Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars by B. Kojo Laing
Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars
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B. Kojo Laing
Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being by Kevin Quashie
Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human by Cole Arthur Riley
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Mainly reads nonfiction books that are reflective, challenging, and emotional.

Typically chooses medium-paced books that are <300 pages long.

Read recently
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Roy Decarava: Light Break by
Bluff: Poems by Danez Smith
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W. French

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Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime New Edition by Jeffrey Boakye
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
Festac '77: 2nd World Festival of Black and African Arts and Culture by Ben Verghese, Ziphozenkosi Dayile, Mamadou Diallo, Duduetsang Lamola, Akin Adesokan, Terry Ayugi, Eva Munyiri, Bongani Kona, Moses März, Andrea Meeson, Dominique Malaquais, Ntone Edjabe, Stacy Hardy, Graeme Arendse
A Tribe Called Quest's 'people's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm' by Shawn Taylor

Challenges

2025 Reading Goal

52 books

2% (1 book)