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This essay dismantles the scaffolding of Eurocentric desirability politics, exposing the biases embedded within our understanding of beauty. Read about Afro-aesthetics, in all its diversity, and the worldviews that underpin it.

Here are fifteen transformative, paradigm-shifting books that promise to stretch your expectations and change the way you think about African and Afro-diasporic women.

Across the globe, Afro-descendant women are organising and strategizing against overlapping systems of oppression which are determined to keep them subdued. Against all odds, these educators, activists, artists, and leaders from across the African continent and diaspora are using their voices and talents to challenge the status quo and build liberated futures for us all. Here are seven such women who are at the forefront of social change.

Oluwaseun Babalola discusses the role of storytelling in the reclamation and definition of African identities. She highlights the power of storytelling as a tool for social change, the challenges African storytellers face in navigating expectations and stereotypes, and the need for authenticity and integrity in storytelling.

Myths and folktales are the lenses through which we have made sense of everything. Learn how epics in the African literary canon draw from folklore and mythology, including from the structures and techniques of oral storytelling.