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Namina Forna, the Glossary

Namina Forna (born 9 January 1987) is a Sierra Leonean American author of young adult fiction and a screenwriter.^[1]

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Sierra Leonean women writers
Speculative fiction writers of African descent

Americans

Americans are the citizens and nationals of the United States.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Dahomey Amazons

The Dahomey Amazons (Fon: Agojie, Agoji, Mino, or Minon) were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey (in today's Benin, West Africa) that existed from the 17th century until the late 19th century.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Elle (magazine)

Elle (stylized in all caps) is a worldwide women's magazine of French origin that offers a mix of fashion and beauty content, and society and lifestyle.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.

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Freetown

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.

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Historically black colleges and universities

Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving African Americans.

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IndieBound

IndieBound is a marketing movement for independent bookstores launched in 2008 by the American Booksellers Association.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Mami Wata

Mami Wata (also Mamba Muntu, Water Mother, La Sirene, Mama Glo, Mama de Agua and Watramama) is a water spirit venerated in West, Central, and Southern Africa and in the Afro-American diaspora.

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Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts administration.

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Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal Elsaadawi (نوال السعداوى,, 22 October 1931 – 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents.

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, (also,; Salone) officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa.

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Sierra Leone Civil War

The Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002), or the Sierra Leonean Civil War, was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), with support from the special forces of Liberian dictator Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), intervened in Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow the Joseph Momoh government.

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Sierra Leonean Americans

Sierra Leonean Americans are an ethnic group of Americans of full or partial Sierra Leonean ancestry.

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Spelman College

Spelman College is a private, historically Black, women's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia.

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The Gilded Ones

The Gilded Ones is a 2021 young adult fantasy novel by Sierra Leonean American writer Namina Forna.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Merciless Ones

The Merciless Ones is a young adult fantasy novel written by Namina Forna, published in 2022.

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The New York Times Best Seller list

The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States.

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USC School of Cinematic Arts

The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) houses seven academic divisions: Film & Television Production; Cinema & Media Studies; John C. Hench Division of Animation + Digital Arts; John Wells Division of Writing for Screen & Television; Interactive Media & Games; Media Arts + Practice; Peter Stark Producing Program.

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Young adult

In medicine and the social sciences, a young adult is generally a person in the years following adolescence, sometimes with some overlap.

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Young adult literature

Young adult literature (YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as friendship, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namina_Forna