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Rama Santa Mansa

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Rama Santa Mansa is an American writer and a wayward academic who was born in Sierra Leone. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Jerusalem and a Callaloo Creative Writing Fellow in Oxford, England. Rama graduated with a Master’s degree in African Studies; and she is currently a perpetual PhD Candidate.

She enjoys the Christmas season (or rather, Mariah season), port cities, sweater weather, Gothic horror films, biographies & memoirs, film festivals, fine art, roller-skating, radio dramas, and vintage Eddie Murphy movies.

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	Portrait of Lysbeth : A Gothic Novella of Sleepy Hollow 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Timeworn Literary Journal, Issue 3, October 2020 by Allison Epstein (Goodreads Author), Kristen Loesch (Goodreads Author), Josefa Corpuz it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Just as I Am

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This short memoir by Ruth Reese was brought to my attention by an Afro-Norwegian librarian. I was flabbergasted when I discovered an African-American singer had made her home in Norway in the 1960s....so unusual. I had never heard of Ruth Reese. "My ...more
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American Daughter is one woman's story of growing up Black in North Dakota in the early 20th century. A Black family in North Dakota. This is such a singular perspective. African Americans probably represented something like 0.0001% of the population ...more
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I purchased this memoir at a bookstore in Edinburgh while I was visiting Scotland for the first time. I wanted another layer of understanding about Scottish people and their ways. A memoir is obviously a singular story about one person, one family. B ...more
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I read I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem for instructive reasons. I was writing my own novella set in 17th century New York; and I too had a Black woman protagonist. I wanted to see how a fellow novelist handled her own storyline full of witchery, raci ...more
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I return to this novel again and again and again. And each time, I discover a healing word. My only regret is that I did not discover Fruit of the Lemon as a lonely and confused 15-year-old girl.
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Hilarious, unhinged, and not at all politically correct for 2024.
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