Obaasema Magazine http://www.obaasema.com Empowerment magazine for African women Tue, Jan 05 2010 22:20:00 EST en-us Review of the Things Around Your Neck http://www.obaasema.com/review-of-the-thing-around-your-neck.html Tue, Jan 05 2010 22:20:00 EST In 2006, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s second novel, “Half of a Yellow Sun,” was eulogized by eminent writers including Chinua Achebe, Edmund White and Joyce Carol Oates. Liberian Legacy: Helen Cooper's "The House at Sugar Beach" http://www.obaasema.com/review_of_the_house_at_sugar_beach.html Tue, Jan 05 2010 22:20:00 EST If you have not already done so, Helene Cooper’s book The House at Sugar Beach makes you want to unearth your family history. Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to the United States http://www.obaasema.com/review_of_dreams_of_africa_in_alabama.html Tue, Jan 05 2010 22:20:00 EST The delicate subject of slavery evidently evokes distinct emotions in every individual. Any absorption of information about the topic – myth or historical fact – often induces a sense of illumination of one’s knowledge, which in fact is the case with historian Dr. Sylviane Diouf’s book, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America.