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By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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With his bestseller,
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates established himself as a unique voice in his generation of American authors; a brilliant writer and thinker in the tradition of James Baldwin.

In his keenly anticipated new book, The Message, he explores the urgent question of how our stories – our reporting, imaginative narratives and mythmaking – both expose and distort our realities. Travelling to three resonant sites of conflict, he illuminates how the stories we tell – as well as the ones we don’t – work to shape us.

The first of the book’s three main parts finds Coates on his inaugural trip to Africa – a journey to Dakar, where he finds himself in two places at once: a modern city in Senegal and the ghost-haunted country of his imagination. He then takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on the banning of his own work and the deep roots of a false and fiercely protected American mythology – visibly on display in this capital of the confederacy, with statues of segregationists still looming over its public squares. Finally in Palestine, Coates sees with devastating clarity the tragedy that grows in the clash between the stories we tell and reality on the ground.

Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country’s most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world – and our own souls – and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.

©2024 Ta-Nehisi Coates (P)2024 Penguin Audio
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The revolution will not be televised but I do believe it will succeed!

Reading this book in November 2024, my heart broken by the west having answered a question I used to ask myself growing up- How could the world let the Holocaust occur, how could neighbours betray their neighbours to mass graves…now I know and my heart is broken.

Ta-Nehisi has written a masterful book that I believe will be looked at in 50-75 years and people will ask themselves as. I did in the 90’s growing up in South Africa - how did they let this happen??

Truth be told, a crazy journalist made me buy this book but Ta-Nehisi made me stop in my tracks and realise the gravity of allowing one’s past trauma blind you when you have become the monster you once fought against.
We pray for Palestine and for the people to return to their land ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

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As always the style in which the author's story is told.

I like how he expressed his truth. his life and his interpretation on the wider world based on the world he came from.

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