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Peggielene Bartels was born in Ghana in 1953 and moved to Washington, D.C., in her early twenties to work at Ghana's embassy. She became an American citizen in 1997. In 2008, she was chosen to be King of Otuam, a Ghanaian ... (more)
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Becoming
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King Peggy
by Peggielene Bartels
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former staff writer at The Village Voice and Time and has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and numerous other publications. Coates has authored a memoir: The Beautiful Struggle: ... (more)
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Becoming
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The Beautiful Struggle
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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by Rawi Hage
A searing and visionary novel set in 1970s Beirut that asks what it means to live through war.
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