Book Launch: "Nigeria Jones" with Author Ibi Zoboi and Ola Ronke of The Black Woman's Free Library.

About the Book:

From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes a bold new YA coming-of-age story, whichexplores race and complicated family dynamics, about a seventeen-year-old girl whose father is theleader of a Black liberation group.Warrior Princess.That’s what Nigeria Jones’s father calls her. He has raised her as part of theMovement, a Black separatist group based in Philadelphia. Nigeria is homeschooled and vegan andparticipates in traditionalrituals to connect her and other kids from the group to their ancestors. Butwhen her mother—the perfect matriarch of their Movement—disappears, Nigeria’s world is upended.She finds herself taking care of her baby brother and stepping into a role she doesn’t want.Nigeria’s mother had secrets. She wished for a different life for her children, which includes sending herdaughter to a private Quaker school outside of their strict group. Despite her father’s disapproval,Nigeria attends the school with hercousin, Kamau, and Sage, who used to be a friend.There, she…