Inspiration Africa

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Marilyn Heward Mills Cloth Girl. loved this book, so insightful of Ga customs. Ga are the people who live around Accra.

Josh Little Catherine’s Gift: Stories of Hope. Story of Dr Catherine Hamlin in Ethiopia fighting to improve women’s health

Bruce Chatwin. The Viceroy of Ouidah 

 Ayesha Harruna Attah The Hundred Wells of Salaga 

Yaa Gyasi Home Going. Two Ghanaian sisters in the 18th century who lead parallel, yet divergent lives. One stays in Ghana and becomes a wealthy slave trader’s wife; one is sold into slavery and sent to America.

Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond Powder Necklace– living in London and Ghana….

Ben Okri The Famished Road  set somewhere in Africa- interesting storytelling….  The novel employs a unique narrative style. It incorporates the spirit world with the “real” world in what some have classified as animalist realism.

Camilla Gibbs– Sweetness in the Belly – set in Morocco, Ethiopia, London…. well written and insight into problems in various countries

Dinaw Mengestu – The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears. Set in Ethiopia against the background of the Revolution and then moving as a refugee to the USA.

Helon Habila Oil on Water. The novel explores themes of both the ecological and political consequences of oil conflicts  and petrodollars in the delta

Manu Herbstein Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The story combines well researched fact of the slave trade in a well written story.

The movie Chevalier– based on true story of a black musician at the time of Mozart. This amazing musician was wiped from history due to the colour of his skin.