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Black Canadian Voices from BlackLit Durham

Books written by upcoming and previous features of the BlackLit Durham literary series in Ajax, Ontario (www.blacklitdurham.com). List includes titles by Afua Cooper, George Elliott Clarke, Mary Anne Chambers, the late Aaron Berhane, Tanya Turton, Sifton Tracey Anipare, Craig Shreve, Nadia L. Hohn, Andrea Thompson, Morgan Campbell, Kern Carter, Gloria Blizzard, and A. Gregory Frankson.

by Greg Frankson

The Halifax Explosion

6 December 1917 at 9:05 in the Morning

by (author) Afua Cooper
illustrated by Bender Rebecca

The Hanging Of Angelique

The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal

by (author) Afua Cooper

Gold

by (author) George Elliott Clarke

George And Rue

by (author) George Elliott Clarke

From the Heart

Family. Community. Service.

by (author) Mary Anne Chambers

The Burden of Exile

A Banned Journalist's Flight from Dictatorship

by (author) Aaron Berhane
foreword by Brendan Caires

Jade Is a Twisted Green

by (author) Tanya Turton

Yume

by (author) Sifton Tracey Anipare

The African Samurai

A Novel

by (author) Craig Shreve

Getting Us to Grandma’s

by (author) Nadia L. Hohn
illustrated by TeMika Grooms

A Selected History of Soul Speak

by (author) Andrea Thompson

My Fighting Family

Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us

by (author) Morgan Campbell

Boys and Girls Screaming

by (author) Kern Carter

Is There a Boy Like Me?

by (author) Kern Carter

And Then There Was Us

by (author) Kern Carter

Malaika, Carnival Queen

by (author) Nadia L. Hohn
illustrated by Irene Luxbacher

A Likkle Miss Lou

How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice

by (author) Nadia L. Hohn
illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes

Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas

Essays

by (author) Gloria Blizzard

AfriCANthology

Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets

edited by A. Gregory Frankson