2025 is the 10th Anniversary of African Book Club, and we are celebrating by partnering with Oakland-based cultural institution, Sistah SciFi! Yes, we are no longer at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco. We are relaunching Sunday May 18 with an in-person discussion of My Parents’ Marriage with author Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond in attendance!

Acclaimed children’s author Nana Brew-Hammond makes her highly anticipated return with this soaring and profound story about love and understanding told through three generations of one Ghanaian family.

Determined to avoid the pain and instability of her parents’ turbulent, confusing marriage, Kokui marries a man far different from her loving, philandering, self-made father—and tries to be a different kind of wife from her mother.

But when Kokui and her husband leave Ghana to make a new life for themselves in America, she finds history repeating itself. Her marriage failing, she is called home to…