The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

by Nnedi Okorafor

Education and the future were important, but family was the true elixir of life.

At first, it was a tiny thread dangling from the edge of an enormity.

They want to erase the history of our people. They want to erase our ancestors. Wipe them all away and replace them with the memory of the Arab. It is a false jihad against the genius of the black African. It is not Islam at all.”