Tyler Perry’s Sistas
Written, directed and executively produced by Tyler Perry, Sistas” follows a group of single black women as they navigate the ups-and-downs of modern life, which includes careers, friendships, romances, and…
Whitefly by Abdelilah Hamdouchi
The traffickers. The drug dealers. The smugglers. They know what it takes to get a gun into Morocco, and so does Detective Laafrit. When a fourth corpse in three days…
Where the Water Meets the Sky
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, Where the Water Meets the Sky is the story of a remarkable group of women in a remote region of northern Zambia, who are given a…
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain by Peter Fryer
Staying Power is recognised as the definitive history of black people in Britain, an epic story that begins with the Roman conquest and continues to this day. In a comprehensive…
Her Only Choice
A woman is faced with a choice to fight for her life or sacrifice it for another. After years of infertility, a newly-expectant mother is diagnosed with a life-altering disease.
The Good Immigrant
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you’re most fitted to play…
Celebrating Life: African American Women Speak Out About Breast Cancer by Sylvia Dunnavant
Shares the stories of sixty-two African American breast cancer survivors and discusses the high incidence of the disease among Black women and how to live with it.
This Lady Called Life
Becoming a chef is Aiye’s greatest desire. But. She is a young, struggling, single mother who has been abandoned by her family. To settle for defeat, or to fight against…
Tribes: How Our Need to Belong Can Make or Break Society by David Lammy
This book is a fascinating and perceptive analysis of not only the way the world works but also the way we really are. Both memoir and call-to-arms, Tribes explores both the benign…
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child,to the day he realized his mum was white,to his first encounters with racist teachers – race and class…
Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
When Zikora, a DC lawyer from Nigeria, tells her equally high-powered lover that she’s pregnant, he abandons her. But it’s Zikora’s demanding, self-possessed mother, in town for the birth, who…
Growing Up African Girl Child in Etsako: The Struggle of an African Girl Child Against Culture and Religious Belief by Dr. Nana Akaeze
Everything Fatima has, shes earned on her own merit. Having gone the very tough way, she built her education from nothing and made it a successful journey through her resilience,…
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
A rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. Drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony…
Le Ballon d’or (The Golden Ball)
Bandian, an 8-year-old boy living in a small village in Guinea, dreams of playing soccer in the big leagues, but he is crushed when he learns that simply buying a…
Ikenga by Nnedi Okorafor
Nnamdi’s father was a good chief of police, perhaps the best Kalaria had ever had. He was determined to root out the criminals that had invaded the town. But then…
Nha Fala (My Voice)
It has always been a firm conviction of the family that any woman who sings, will die. Now, while a girl is in France she becomes an international star. She…
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands…