Best Books by Black Women
130+ Books by Black Women That Should Be Essential Reading For Everyone
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Wayétu Moore's debut, She Would Be King, works to reimagine the history of Liberia's formation with a tale of three individuals — a woman exiled from her West African village, a man raised on a plantation in Virginia, and the child of a white British coloniser and Jamaican slave — who meet in the settlement of Monrovia, where they discover their shared superhuman abilities.