Nervous Conditions: Rejecting Patriarchy

Welcome to Audiobook Club. I’m your host Imriel Morgan, the Founder of Content is Queen.Audiobook Club is a monthly event and podcast where we celebrate and discuss Black, Asian, Queer and female narratives in literature. Every month we meet with other Audiobookworms to discuss a ...  Show more

It’s here! For the fifth episode of AudioBook Club, we meet up to discuss Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola.Love in colour contains a collection of love stories inspired by tales of the past. Debut author Bolu Babalola takes the most beautiful and shocking love stories from history ...  Show more

A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten of Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, Nervous Conditions is the coming-of-age story of two Shona girls, Tambudzai and Nyasha, both trying to find their place in contemporary Zimbabwe. Whilst Nyasha ...  Show more

"There's these universal truths [...] specific details, but universal feelings and universal experiences that people hopefully can relate to. And that's what I go for in all of my books. Common humanity.” - Hena KhanHena Khan didn’t believe her perspective mattered. As a Pakistan ...  Show more

Padma Desai grew up in the 1930s in the provincial world of Surat, India, where she had a sheltered and strict upbringing in a traditional Gujarati Anavil Brahmin family. Her academic brilliance won her a scholarship to Bombay University, where the first heady taste of freedom in ...  Show more

Zainab Hawa Bangura is the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) and worries for the health and safety of her staff and the populations they serve in the face COVID-19.

Zainab began her career as a women's rights campaigner in her home country ...