Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora.
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Afua Cooper4 quotes“Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora.”
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