Novel Reading for Black History Month

I started reading Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche recently.  It's pretty far outside the usual genres I read (sci-fi and fantasy), but I want to explore stories outside my typical genres.  I am finding this an interesting book so far, though I haven't read enough to get a feel for the overall story yet.  I especially found the descriptions of the protagonist's blogging activities amusing and interesting.  Despite it being such a seemingly mundane activity given that people often perform it at home, I find I think about blogging and my time spent on social media a lot, to the point where I've even had dreams that are just, like, blog posts and social media interactions. Like my dream is just an image of a computer screen with a bunch of text on it, lol.

I also want to read the last book in the Binti trilogy, which *is* in my usual genres of interest.  Binti is classified as Afrofuturism, which is a sub-genre of scifi.  The novel focuses on a young Himba mathematician who is accepted to a prestigious university.  It's heavily character-based, focusing a lot on the protagonists inner thoughts and personal development and relationships, so that's a plus for me, since I like characterization heavy stories.  The plot isn't super focused on (at least in the two novels I've read) though, so if you're really into intricate plots, this may not be the series for you.  Since I do also like plot-heavy stories, I'd say this is where I wish this series had more.  The world-building is pretty neat and unusual, though, and another plus for this series.

I've been looking up more black authors to read this Black History Month (and beyond), with a particular interest in black sci-fi authors given my current sci-fi kick, but I also want to explore stories written by black authors in other genres, even ones I don't usually read a lot of.  Coincidently, both the authors I mentioned reading are Nigerian or Nigerian-American.  Nnedi Okorafor is Nigerian American and currently lives in Ohio, and Chimamanda is also Nigerian and from what I understand has spent her adulthood moving between the US and Nigeria.

Have you read any books by black authors lately?  What did you think of them?

The Baptist: A Fun Star Wars Short Story

What got me into reading Nnedi Okorafor was The Baptist in the From a Certain Point of View book.  That was a fun short, heh.  Also, because of that story, I'll probably write dianogas as sapient if I include them to any significant degree in my fanfic.

In Which I Express a Videogame Opinion

This is a possibly controversial opinion, but story quality is a valid metric by which to judge a videogame.  This is not to say that it's the only valid metric, but the idea that the story of a game is just an extraneous part and can't be intrinsic to the overall quality of a game is, I feel, miguided.