Overview
A generation of Nigerian children were born in Britain in the fifties and sixties, privately fostered by white families, then taken to Nigeria by their parents.
CoconutĀ is the story of one of those children.
1963, North London. Nan fosters one-year-old Florence OĢ£laĢjiĢdeĢ and calls her Ann. Florence adores her foster mother more than anything but Nan, and the children around her, all have white skin and she canāt help but feel different. Then, four years later, after a weekend visit to her birth parents, Florence never returns to Nan. Two months after, sandwiched between her mother and father plus her three siblings, six-year-old Florence steps off a ship in Lagos to the fierce heat of the African sun.
Swapping the lovely, comfortable bed in her room at Nanās for a mat on the floor of the living room in her new home, Florence finds herself struggling to adjust. She wants to embrace her cultural heritage but doesnāt speak Yoruba and knows nothing of the customs. Clashes with her grandmother, Mama, the matriarch of the family, result in frequent beatings. Torn between her early childhood experiences and the expectations of her African culture, she begins to question who she is. Nigerian, British, both?
This book title, Coconut (A Black Girl, a White Foster Family, and the Search for Belonging and Identity), ISBN: 9781538710562, by Florence Olajide, published by Grand Central Publishing (April 19, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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