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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Washington Black : a novel
Edugyan, Esi.
Paper Book
Escape is only the beginning ... Inspired by a true story, Washington Black is an extraordinary tale of a world destroyed and made whole again.
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 of the 'Scramble for Africa' in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for many centuries. Its gold had fuelled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world since around 1000 CE, and its sophisticated kingdoms had traded with Europeans along the coasts...
Homegoing
Gyasi, Yaa
Paper Book
A BBC Top 100 Novels that Shaped Our World Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow. Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to...
The underworld : journeys to the depths of the ocean
Casey, Susan
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets. ______________________________________________ 'Fantastical and forbidding' Washington...
Skin of the sea
Bowen, Natasha
Paper Book
This is the story of a great love - a love that will threaten worlds and anger Gods. This is a story that will change history. Simidele is one of the Mami Wata, mermaids duty-bound to collect the souls of those who die at sea and bless their journeys back home to the...

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