What to Read After Visiting AGGV's Afroquatics Exhibition

A selection of books that explore some of the themes from Afroquatics: A Call and Response Below the Surface. Created by Kemi Craig, the City of Victoria’s Artist in Residence, this exhibition will be running at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria from Feb 17 - May 26 2024.

Updated January 22, 2024
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Ada's room
Otoo, Sharon Dodua
Paper Book
A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada...
Washington Black : a novel
Edugyan, Esi.
Paper Book
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST * "A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free." --Vanity Fair Eleven-year-old George Washington...
A fistful of shells : West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution
Green, Toby
Paper Book
By the time the "Scramble for Africa" among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning...
Homegoing
Gyasi, Yaa
Paper Book
Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize A New York Times 2016 Notable Book One of Oprah's 10 Favorite Books of 2016 NPR's Debut Novel of the Year One of Buzzfeed's Best Fiction Books Of 2016 One of Time's Top 10 Novels of 2016
Reality+ : virtual worlds and the problems of philosophy
Chalmers, David John
Paper Book
Virtual reality is genuine reality; that's the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of "technophilosophy," David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He argues that virtual worlds are not second-class worlds, and that we can live a meaningful life...

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