Octavia Butler: Visionary Fiction (2021)
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I'm an Ibo Woman in Pre-Colonial Nigeria Before It Was Nigeria
The book is about an Ibo woman in pre-colonial Nigeria before it was Nigeria who doesn't die. She moves through the transatlantic slave trade, like a middle passage to the United States while she's alive. Nettie: "I've been waiting to read something like that for how long"
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