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Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books by Alain Mabanckou, Jackson P. Brown, Markus Redmond, and Patrick Ochieng.

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The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. and School Library Journal announce the 2025 Children & Youth Literary Awards, which celebrate the diversity of the Black experience.

In a suburb of the Kenyan city of Eldoret, 14-year-old Kimathi escapes the men with machetes who killed his father during the post-election violence of 2007-2008.

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Buy a cheap copy of Displaced book by Patrick Ochieng. Fourteen-year-old Kimathi has a comfortable life in the suburbs of western Kenya--until a contentious election explodes into violence. His father...

"Rasna loved Kenya and bled from each cut the country received. She convened the grief support group after Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto entered the presidenc...