Maik and Malaika prepare a yam harvest celebration for their grandfather in Ngozi Okwuosa’s picture book about family, tradition, and gratitude.
Ngozi Okwuosa’s Maik und Malaika feiern das Yam-Erntefest
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Ngozi Okwuosa’s Maik und Malaika: Die versteckte Weihnachtskrippe
A Christmas Eve adventure with Maik and Malaika, bringing diverse children and family traditions into German-language reading for young learners.
Ngozi Okwuosa’s Rapulu’s Rainbow Stars: Friendship and Belonging
Ngozi Okwuosa’s English-language picture book explores albinism, friendship, and belonging through Rapulu’s experience of exclusion and his friends’ response.
Alexander G. Weheliye’s Habeas Viscus: Race, Flesh, and the Human
Alexander G. Weheliye examines how racial power shapes who is recognized as fully human. Drawing centrally on Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter, he brings Black feminist thought into debates about bodies, political violence, and the possibilities of life beyond racial hierarchies.
The Little Book of Big Visions: Art and the Worlds We Can Imagine
The Little Book of Big Visions: How to Be an Artist and Revolutionize the World gathers perspectives on Black artistic practice and the possibilities that art can open. Edited by…
Peggy Piesche’s Euer Schweigen schützt euch nicht: Black Women’s Organizing in Germany
Peggy Piesche brings writing by Audre Lorde together with the perspectives of Black women engaged in organizing in Germany. Essays, poetry, recollections, and dialogue trace the relationships through which a movement found language, community, and political force.