![]() ![]() The best word to describe acclaimed author Ibi Zoboi’s Nigeria Jones is heavy. ![]() As Nigeria moves further from everything she’s ever known, she’s forced to ask: Who is Nigeria Jones? As Nigeria embarks on a journey of self-discovery, she also learns about the world outside the Movement and meets other teens, some Black, some not. Then Nigeria discovers that her mother secured a spot for her at a wealthy private school, and she begins attending classes there. She has internalized her father’s teachings, from his loving, community-oriented leadership to his ire toward all systems, including education, corporate capitalism and health care. ![]() The Movement isolates itself from the world, divesting from white supremacist systems, all in service of a vision for the future in which Black communities can thrive, independent from oppressive forces.īut Nigeria’s mother has left, disappeared, and without the woman under whose care and attention the Movement thrived, Nigeria is floundering and filled with doubt. Alongside the Movement’s members, whom Nigeria knows as aunties and uncles, sisters and brothers, Nigeria has spent her life being home-schooled and learning about Blackness-its traditions, its histories, its struggles, its triumphs. Within the Movement, the Black separatist utopian community founded in West Philadelphia by her parents, Kofi Sankofa and Natalie Pierre, Nigeria is all of these things and none of them. ![]()
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