Sistah Scifi African Book Club

Host: Faith Adiele (African Book Club)
Author: Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond will be in attendance

**About African Book Club**
Hosted and curated by writer and professor Faith Adiele, African Book Club is a free monthly series that celebrates the current renaissance of African literature. The series highlights Africa’s diversity by seeking out female and LGBTQ voices, newer literary genres like Afro-Futurism, Young Adult, and Mystery, and representation from all regions, including translations from Arabic, French, and Portuguese. In 2025, the 10th Anniversary of the club, African Book Club partnered with Sistah SciFi. More at https://www.moadsf.org

**About Faith Adiele**
Faith Adiele is an award-winning memoirist, essayist, travel writer, curator, and speaker. She founded the nation's first workshop for travel writers of color and contributes to the CALM app, HBO-Max, and numerous magazines. She lives in Oakland and chairs the Writing & Literature Program at California College of the Arts. Learn more at
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**About My Parents' Marriage **
Acclaimed children’s author Nana Brew-Hammond makes her highly anticipated return with this soaring and profound story about love and understanding told through three generations of one Ghanaian family. "Intent on avoiding the same marriage trap her mother falls into, Kokui Nuga goes on a heartfelt journey from the glitz of Accra in the ‘70s to the mystical markets of Togo to freezing New York State. My Parents’ Marriage, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond’s new novel, tackles Ghana’s complicated customary marriage laws with smooth and powerful prose." — Ayesha Harruna Attah, author of The Hundred Wells of Salaga, The Deep Blue Between, Saturday’s Shadows, and Harmattan Rain

**About Nana Brew-Hammond**
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond is the author of Powder Necklace: A Novel, Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky, Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices, and My Parents’ Marriage: A Novel. Learn more at

**About Sistah Scifi**
Started in 2019 by Isis Asare, Sistah Scifi is the first Back-owned bookstore focused on science fiction and fantasy in the US, as validated by the American Booksellers Association. Located primarily in cyberspace, Sistah Scifi launched three Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machines at Chapter 510 located at 546 9th St, Oakland, CA 94607, and Northwest African American Museum and Distant Worlds Coffee in Seattle, WA in 2022. More at www.sistahscifi.com.

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