Category: Book Club
-
WNBA Champ A’ja Wilson’s Debut Autobiography is A Love Letter To Black Girls
Dear Black Girls is a love letter to Women, letting them know that someone like her has lived a similar life to theirs and has faced the same kind of challenges.
-
Gender-Based Violence and the State of Afghan Women in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns
For the #16DaysOfActivism, we dive into the socio-cultural, religious, and sexual gender-based violence represented in Khaled Hosseini’s critically acclaimed book A Thousand Splendid Suns.
-
Cassava Republic’s $30,000 Black Women’s Non-fiction Manuscript Prize
Cassava Republic launches $30,000 Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize, celebrating Black women writers across Africa and the Afro-diaspora.
-
Exploring ‘The Memory Police’ by Yōko Ogawa
Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literature award, and “The Memory Police”, initially published in Japan in 1994 but now translated excellently into English, reaffirms her place as one of her generation’s most influential Japanese writers.
-
Malika Booker Becomes First Woman to Win Forward Prize for Poetry Twice
The poem, Libation, took top honors. It was composed, Booker claimed, “when funeral rituals weren’t possible” during the Covid-19 lockdowns, which led her to ponder the significance of such events.
-
Flora Nwapa: Pioneering African Women’s Literature and Publishing
Fondly known as the mother of modern African literature, Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa was the first African woman novelist to publish a book in English in Britain, setting the stage for a generation of African women writers.
-
Six Must-Read Books by Female Authors from Masobe Publications
Masobe Publications have a stellar portfolio of female authors and we are so excited to get into these!
-
Bisola Bada’s “Unashamed” Speaks of Feminine Resilience
The words of Bada’s collection are as easy on the eyes as they are on the ears. The poems feel faintly familiar, as though you’ve read them before. Perhaps it is the themes that speak to the lived experiences of every woman
-
In R.F. Kuang’s “Babel”, Language is a Weapon
“Babel,” scathingly interrogates colonialism and the ways Western imperialism demands its victims to make peace with a system that exploits them in order to survive or face heavy consequences for attempting to fight back.
-
2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist
Ahead of the announcement for the winner, DW bookclub thought to introduce you to the brilliant contenders; add them to your reading lists, recommend them to friends, buy them etc.