Afua Hirsch
Praise for Decolonising My Body
Exceptionally rich, inspiring, challenging, wise and moving. I didn't realise I needed this book until I read it and felt stirrings towards my own ancestral awakening of African female cultural beliefs and pr ...
Bernardine Evaristo, author of 'Girl, Woman, Other'
We’re talking a lot about identity and race and politics, but also about the impact of colonialism on body image, and it’s just something that I had never considered before. I felt like I was learning a lot in re ...
Gillian Anderson
I would wholeheartedly recommend Decolonising My Body by Afua Hirsch. It is a very brave and honest exploration, almost and excavation of Eurocentric standards of beauty and perceptions of body, ...
Elif Shafak, The New Statesman Books of the Year 2023
Exceptionally rich, inspiring, challenging, wise and moving. I didn't realise I needed this book until I read it and felt stirrings towards my own ancestral awakening of African female cultural beliefs and pr ...
Bernardine Evaristo, author of 'Girl, Woman, Other'
We’re talking a lot about identity and race and politics, but also about the impact of colonialism on body image, and it’s just something that I had never considered before. I felt like I was learning a lot in re ...
Gillian Anderson
I would wholeheartedly recommend Decolonising My Body by Afua Hirsch. It is a very brave and honest exploration, almost and excavation of Eurocentric standards of beauty and perceptions of body, ...
Elif Shafak, The New Statesman Books of the Year 2023
Exceptionally rich, inspiring, challenging, wise and moving. I didn't realise I needed this book until I read it and felt stirrings towards my own ancestral awakening of African female cultural beliefs and pr ...
Bernardine Evaristo, author of 'Girl, Woman, Other'
We’re talking a lot about identity and race and politics, but also about the impact of colonialism on body image, and it’s just something that I had never considered before. I felt like I was learning a lot in re ...
Gillian Anderson
I would wholeheartedly recommend Decolonising My Body by Afua Hirsch. It is a very brave and honest exploration, almost and excavation of Eurocentric standards of beauty and perceptions of body, ...
Elif Shafak, The New Statesman Books of the Year 2023
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