Homegoing (2016), by Yaa Gyasi is a double person recommendation that I’m passing on to you.
What a book!
It is a slim 300 pages that starts with this Akan proverb (translated to English):
“The family is like the forest: if you are outside it is dense; if you are inside you see that each tree has its own position.”
This is a story of woven lives, history, t…
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