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Ghana in Context: Home

Research Ghanaian history to get some context while reading Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir by Ta-Nehisi Coates

She would be king by Wayetu Moore

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

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The house of the spirits by Isabel Allende

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A professor with Ghanaian roots unearths a slave castle’s history — and her own (from PRI):