Homegoing

you could not inherit a scar.

Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.”

The family is like the forest: if you are outside it is dense; if you are inside you see that each tree has its own position.

Mengestu, Dinaw. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Morrison, Toni. Beloved

Okparanta, Chinelo. Happiness, Like Water

Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo. Dust

Salih, Tayeb. Season of Migration to the North

Selasi, Taiye. Ghana Must Go

Suggested Reading
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun

Aidoo, Ama Ata. No Sweetness Here and Other Stories

Armah, Ayi Kwei. The Healers

Bulawayo, NoViolet. We Need New Names

Cole, Teju. Every Day Is for the Thief

When Marjorie had asked her father again when he had known he liked Esther, he said he had always known. He said it was born in him, that he breathed it in with the first breeze of Edweso, that it moved in him like the harmattan. There was nothing like love for Marjorie in Alabama.

She wanted to tell Mrs. Pinkston that at home, they had a different word for African Americans. Akata. That akata people were different from Ghanaians, too long gone from the mother continent to continue calling it the mother continent. She wanted to tell Mrs. Pinkston that she could feel herself being pulled away too, almost akata, too long gone from Ghana to be Ghanaian. But the look on Mrs. Pinkston’s face stopped her from explaining herself at all.

He said that people need time in order to be able to see things clearly.

What I know now, my son: Evil begets evil. It grows. It transmutes, so that sometimes you cannot see that the evil in t

We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.