{"title":"Yalie Saweda Kamara","description":"\u003cp\u003eYalie Saweda Kamara’s works evoke a vivid exploration of \u003cstrong\u003earts and culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, weaving stories that resonate with tradition and modernity. Readers can expect narratives rich in cultural insight, crafted with a deep appreciation for heritage and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough titles like \u003cem\u003eBesaydoo\u003c\/em\u003e, Kamara invites you into worlds where history and personal experience intertwine, offering thoughtful reflections on community and belonging. These books are a compelling journey for those interested in diverse cultural perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"besaydoo-by-yalie-saweda-kamara-9781639550319","title":"Besaydoo","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara's \u003cem\u003eBesaydoo\u003c\/em\u003e is an elegantly wrought love song to home—as place, as people, as body, and as language.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA griot is a historian, a living repository of communal legacies with \"a story pulsing in every blood cell.\" In \u003cem\u003eBesaydoo\u003c\/em\u003e, Kamara serves as griot for the Freeborn in Oakland, the Sierra Leonean in California, the girl straddling womanhood, the woman rediscovering herself. \"I am made from the obsession of detail,\" she writes, setting scenes from her own multifaceted legacy in sharp relief: the memory of her mother's singing, savoury stacks of lumpia, a church where \"everyone is broken, but trying.\" A multitudinous witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKamara psalms from the nexus of many languages—Krio, English, French, poetry's many dialects—to highlight mechanisms not just for survival, but for abundance. \"I make myth for peace,\" she writes, as well as for loss, for delight, for kinship, and most of all for a country where Black means \"steadfast and opulent,\" and \"dangerous and infinite.\" She writes for a new America, where praise is plentiful and Black lives flourish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut in \u003cem\u003eBesaydoo\u003c\/em\u003e, there is no partition between the living and the dead. There is no past nor present. There is, instead, a joyful simultaneity—a liberating togetherness sustained by song.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eBesaydoo\u003c\/em\u003e audiobook read by Yalie Saweda Kamara is available everywhere you listen to audiobooks.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595788435692,"sku":"9781639550319","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/b2caea237b600ff4eb15d88eeb8e78b3.jpg?v=1777933985"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/yalie-saweda-kamara.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}