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Ep 513 - Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi

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The Assante Is Not a Slave

Most of the book is still like the assante ire a um. You get people straddling this line between being authority figures in the white, like, british part of this and trying to fulfil their traditional roles within the assante society that they come from. And then you get one person who decides he doesn't want to be part of his family's slave trade - so he escapes. This is the closest you get in the african sections of the book to having sort of a break. Where it is, it becomes harder,. just like google who your family was, you know? I mean, sort, well, oh, yes, y, yes.

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