Purchase Books by 2024 Legacy Award finalists

Thank you for purchasing books from our Legacy Award finalists. This year’s book vendor is Sankofa Books, a Black-owned bookstore in Washington, DC.

About Sankofa Video, Books, & Cafe: 

“Named after the internationally acclaimed film called SANKOFA (produced by the founders) , Sankofa Video, Books & Café carries with it an expectation of quality and discovery. Founded in 1998 by filmmaking couple, Haile and Shirikiana Gerima, Sankofa Video and Books specializes in videos and books about people of African descent around the world.

SANKOFA, which is an Adinkra term for “going back to our past in order to go forward,” obtained numerous awards and special screenings internationally, but domestically no distribution company would touch it. A story about a woman who travels to her past on a plantation, and other enslaved Blacks that plan and execute rebellion, was not an easy topic to get funded or distributed once completed.

Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe is nestled in the college campus corridor of Georgia Ave, in Washington, DC, across from Howard University, two blocks from Benjamin Banneker Sr. High School.” Learn more on Sankofa.com.

*some titles may not be available on Sankofa.com

 

Debut Fiction

General Fiction

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah – Chain-Gang All-Stars

Cheryl A. Head  – Time’s Undoing 

Ayana Mathis – The Unsettled 

Mihret Sibhat  – The History of a Difficult Child 

Speculative Fiction

Johnny Compton – Spite House

Mary McLaughlin Slechta – Mulberry Street Stories*

Moses Ose Utomi – Lies of Ajungo

Historical Nonfiction  

Memoir Nonfiction 

Poetry

Amanda Gunn – Things I Didn’t Do With This Body*

Patricia Spears Jones – The Beloved Community*

Van Jordan – When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again*

Airea Dee Matthews – Bread & Circus*

Charif Shanahan – Trace Evidence*

Creative Fiction Anthology

Ntozake Shange, Edited by Imani Perry – Sing a Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange

Learn More about Our 2024 Merit Award Winners

The North Star Award 

N.K. Jemisin  

The Ella Baker Award

Claudia Rankine 

The Madam C.J. Walker Award

Marcus Books