
We Lit Featuring Ibi Zoboi
We Lit is a CCCADI series dedicated to exploring authors of the African Diaspora who have beautifully woven their experiences, cultures, and dreams into their works. This series is a call to writers, griots, storytellers, and lovers of the written word to spark collective conservation, reflection, and celebration for African Diasporic literature.
Join us at the CCCADI Firehouse on February 11th for our first We Lit event of 2025, as we celebrate the launch of Ibi Zoboi’s contemporary fantasy debut novel: “(S)kin”. Ibi Zoboi will read from her novel, and then engage in conversation with author Leslie-Ann Murray and author, editor and founder of ‘ The Bronx Is Reading’ Saraciea J. Fenell, delving into themes present in the novel and across Zoboi’s work. (S)kin is a novel in verse based on Caribbean folklore- about the power of inherited magic and the price we must pay to live the life we yearn for.