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A (short and incomplete) weekly list of books by Black authors

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About Kwame Mbalia

Kwame is a husband, father, writer, a New York Times bestselling author, a publisher at Freedom Fire, his imprint with Disney, and a former pharmaceutical metrologist in that order.

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