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…
Sisters in Law
Sisters in Law captures the legal proceedings and courtroom drama surrounding several heartfelt stories. Six-year-old Grace was beaten by her depraved aunt. Young Sonita was raped by a neighbor, but she’s…
Baby Mamas
A comedy drama revolving around the daily lives and loves of four professional women who are all in different stages of their own real-life baby mama drama. We meet TOLI,…
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when…
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives…
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
Original essays by some of our best black female writers and creative voices to shine a light on how we search for ourselves in literature, and how important it is…
The Infinite by Patience Agbabi
Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift – the ability to leap through time. Elle Bibi-Imbele Ifie has The…
Addis Ababa Noir
What marks life in Addis Ababa are the starkly different realities coexisting in one place. It’s a growing city taking shape beneath the fraught weight of history, myth, and memory….
District 9
Set in a futuristic Africa occupied by extra-terrestrial beings, District 9 focuses on an alien race forced to live in terrible conditions on Earth. Imprisoned in a militarized internment camp…
Unbury Our Dead With Song by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
This novel is a love letter to African music, beauty and imagination. Unbury our Dead With Song is a novel about four talented Ethiopian musicians – The Diva,The Corporal, the…
ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
This documentary delves into the events surrounding the mysterious murder of Sam Cooke, the musician and activist who died in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement in 1964.
We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan
1960s UGANDA. Hasan is struggling to run his family business following the sudden death of his wife. Just as he begins to see a way forward, a new regime seizes…
From A Whisper
A Kenyan drama based on events surrounding the bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi in 1998. Abu is a quiet, hardworking intelligence officer who keeps to himself. When he…
The Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka
1981, and England looks forward to a new decade. But on the streets of Brixton, it’s hard to hold onto your optimism, especially if you are a young black man….
