We absolutely ❤️ how our reading nook turned out and we're also getting ready to re-launch our coffee + tea service and grab + go section.
We'll be sprucing up for the next few months so stop by soon and stay connected.🥰
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Batakari in local Ghanaian language is a customary traditional men's garment from West Africa.
Stop by soon to shop the collection.
📢 Our Shirt Dresses have been added to our $25 SALE RACK.
Stop by soon to shop the collection and the other *steals* on our sale rack.
Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history.
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Also known as African American History Month, the event grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month.
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Other countries around the world, including Canada and the United Kingdom, also devote a month to celebrating Black history.
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Stop by Black Food Bookstore and Culture Shop this month to browse our curated collection. You'll be sure to find books about black history and culture and other items that reflect our heritage.
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Please also stay tuned for details about this month's activities for Black History Month.
Black Food Bookstore and Culture Shop wishes you a Happy New Year and all the best in 2024!
We look forward to bringing you the latest and best of black culture in the months ahead.
Stay in touch for new products and community events.
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1. On Thriving
We’ve all been there: We take a pause, look at our lives, and desire more—more from our relationships, more from our wellness journeys, maybe simply more from ourselves. For some, it might be more fun, more peace, more exploration—but what does it take to get to the other side of living in survival mode? In On Thriving, Brandi Sellerz-Jackson helps us wade through what she calls the four great labors of our lives—labors that she’s had to overcome and that she has led many clients through.
2. Woke Up No Light
Leila Mottley follows her trailblazing first novel with a perfectly pitched first collection of poems that demonstrate her spark and scope. woke up no light reckons with themes of reparations, restitution, and desire. Moving in sections from “girlhood” to “neighborhood” to “falsehood” to, finally, “womanhood,” these poems are the breathing life of a Black girl as she grows into adulthood, simultaneously youthful and profound. Each poem is a searing vignette, capturing the dissonance of Black girlhood through visceral language. The collection is sharp and raw, wise and rhythmic, a combination that lights up each page. From unearthing histories to searching for ways to dream of a future in a world constantly on the brink of disaster, Mottley sets forth personal and political revelation with piercing detail.
3. The Road to the Salt Sea
Described as a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, Kolawole ‘s novel follows its main character, Able God, who works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must flash his “toothpaste-white smile” for wealthy guests. But Able’s ordinary life is upended when an early morning room service order leads him to interfere with Akudo, a sex worker involved with a powerful but dangerous hotel guest. Suddenly caught in a web of violence, guilt, and fear, Able must run to save himself.
4. Children of Anguish and Anarchy
Children of Anguish and Anarchy is the last novel in Adeyemi’s monumental fantasy trilogy titled Legacy of Orisha. This book continues where the last left off.
5. The Road to the Country
Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s, The Road to the Country is an epic war story involving a shy, bookish student, Kunle, haunted by long-held guilt and shame, who must go to war to free himself. Kunle’s search for his brother becomes a journey of atonement that will see him conscripted into the breakaway Biafran army and forced to fight a war he hardly understands.
6. An African History of Africa
In this fascinating book, Badawi guides us through Africa’s spectacular history – from the very origins of our species, through ancient civilisations and mediaeval empires with remarkable queens and kings, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence. Visiting more than thirty African countries to interview countless historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and local storytellers, she unearths buried histories from across the continent and gives Africa its rightful place in our global story.
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The Black Food Bookstore & Culture Shop family wishes you a holiday season of joy and peace.
Thank you all for your support this year and we look forward to serving you in 2024!
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To commemorate The Bahamas’ 50th anniversary of Independence, the Shirley Hall Bass Legacy Project has partnered with University of The Bahamas (UB), the Ministry of Education and Technical and Vocational Training, the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture and University of The Bahamas (UB) to present its 5th Annual Dance Educators Forum, "Dance Integration: Beyond Imagination," from 27th to 30th July 2023. This conference/workshop is open to all dancers, educators, and the public.
Supported by UB’s Office of Academic Affairs, the four-day conference and workshops will focus on nation-building through performing arts in public education and programming. Besides the full-day Dance Educators Forum on Saturday, July 29th,there will also be youth program site visits, free dance classes (in person and virtual),lectures on Bahamian dance history and education, an awards presentation, and performances from July 27- 30th.
In keeping with its goal of “moving a nation one classroom at a time,” the Shirley Hall Bass Legacy Project is extending their reach to primary and secondary educators and dance teachers across the nation. Their research-based methods and movement integration workshops will increase student engagement, social and emotional learning, and support classroom management. There will be international and regional emphasis on Afro-diasporic dance traditions highlighting performing arts as culture and culturally responsive methods of teaching dance. Panelists and lecturers will discuss dance education’s impact on the orange economy, and on an individual’s overall wellbeing, creativity and critical thinking skills. Their theme, “Dance Integration: Beyond Imagination Moving a Nation One Classroom at a Time” is timely given the government's recent impetus to establish a performing arts school.
Registration is free for ALL Ministry of Education teachers; free to dance teachers whoregister before 10th July 2023; and $30 ($40 with boxed lunch) for the general public.Conference and workshops will be held in the Harry C. Moore Library and Information Centre at UB’s Oakes Field Campus.
The Shirley Hall Bass Legacy Project is a registered NPO in The Bahamas whose goal is to engage the entire archipelago in improving the health and wellness of our nation while preserving and celebrating Bahamian culture through dance education.
For more information, email: shirleybassproject@gmail.com
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Conference Itinerary
Thursday, July 27, 2023
8:00 am: Free Public Dance and Fitness Workshop with A'Keitha Carey, Doctoral Candidate at Florida International University, cultural anthropologist and dance educator, University of The Bahamas (UB) Performing Arts Center (PAC)
9:00 am - 2:00 pm: Continental Breakfast, Cultural Programming Site Visits, for registered participants of Saturday's Forum departing from the UB Library
5:00 - 6:30 pm: Free Advanced Pearl Primus Dance Workshop, for pre-professional dancers ages 15+, with Sheron Trotman, Barbadian choreographer and dance educator, UB Performing Arts Center
7:00 - 8:30 pm: Free Public Lecture Caribbean Dance Education and Aesthetics: Possibilities, Contributions, and Futures with A' Keitha Carey at the UB Harry Moore Library American Corner
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Friday, July 28, 2023
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Saturday, July 29, 2023
5th Dance Educators Forum hosted by the University of The Bahamas in the Harry C. Moore Library (registration required)
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Sunday, July 30, 2023
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THIRTY7 or 37, is an exploration of my observations on Black womanhood in postcolonialism. It meanders along the Belize River, a route of Black Liberation, which is an important vein in Belize’s economic history. It wants to question what this river, the sea and other bodies of water signified to the Maya, before the British colonised, what later developed into the settler-nation-state, that we now know as Belize, Central America.
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It is also a map of coordinates of a 37 year old Black Belizean woman, 15 years making art under the title of ‘artist,’ tracing points along waterways near the places responsible for my formation as a person and a Belizean citizen, whatever that means. I was born in San Ignacio Town in August 1986 and raised in Central Farm, Belmopan, Belize City and Ladyville respectively. It started in 2021 in Caye Caulker, an island in the Caribbean sea, questioning a project I wanted to embark on while studying a visual arts degree in Mérida, Yucatán, México, when I learned about Cri Cri (Francisco Gabilondo Soler) and la Negrita Cucurumbé (1963), in 2022 it remapped by running in loop up and down the steps of the National Assembly building (the literal seat of government), it touches on the coast of the waterway near where the Belize River empties into the Caribbean Sea, in a clearing of mangrove.
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Later on the bank of the Belize River and intends to expand to Guanacaste Park and the Macal River. These bodies of water carry strong currents of both colonial exploitation, extraction and othering and raging currents of anti-colonial attitudes, resistance, and the liberation of Enslaved Africans, also Indigenous people fighting for sovereignty and ownership of their land and water.
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This is a video performance series which spans being born woman and Black in a postcolonial Belize, grappling with the legacy of misogyny and racism, vestiges of British colonialism, studying art in nearby Yucatán, which is very much connected to Belize via the sugarcane industry, la Guerra de las Castas, 1847 (Caste War) and now with our looming energy crisis with Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), and returning to Belize in 2008, without the visual arts degree, but declaring my status as a visual artist and writer, and how I have tried to carve out a niche for myself in this postcolonial space.
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Persons outside of Belize can tune in via Katie's Instagram page (@katienumi) on August 11th, 2023 at 7 pm to experience her second solo exhibit.
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Black Food Bookstore and Culture Shop Co-Owner, Alex Morley, shares about the company on Monday, June 19th during an appearance on Bahamas at Sunrise.
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On May 25, 1963, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the great Kwame Nkrumah declared this day “Africa Freedom Day,” which later became African Liberation Day.
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It has since been celebrated on the African continent and all across the African world, wherever African people are located.
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Black Food Bookstore and Culture Shop will commemorate African Liberation Day this year with a screening of the film "Judas and the Black Messiah" on Wednesday, May 24th at 6 pm. Open discussion will follow the screening and light refreshments will be served.
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To save your seat click here to register. All tickets are complimentary.
]]>May is Haitian Heritage Month and Black Food Bookstore and Culture Shop is pleased to be a sponsor of this year's Haitian Cultural Festival. The event is happening on Saturday, May 27th at 2 pm until at the Fair Grounds, Sports Center.
We'll have a booth so be sure to connect with us!
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With prices on the rise everywhere, we've decided to offer you a few discounted items.
Shop through our great selection of sale and clearance items at Black Food Bookstore & Culture Shop.
All items are priced at $25 (VAT inclusive). In-store only.
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The celebration of Black History Month began as “Negro History Week,” which was created in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, a noted African American historian, scholar, educator and publisher. It became a month-long celebration in 1976.
It has received official recognition from governments in the United States and Canada, and more recently has been observed in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Stay connected with us all month long for information on offers, giveaways and events!