Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman is an American writer, cultural historian, and professor at Columbia University. She is one of the most acclaimed and influential scholars of the African American experience, slavery, and its afterlives. Lose Your Mother is her powerful account of tracing the slave trade through Ghana, weaving together personal memoir and historical investigation. Her audiobooks and books are profound listening and reading for anyone seeking to understand the enduring legacies of slavery and the meaning of belonging.