39 Min.
The Gilded Ones: Namina Forna Behind the Cover
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The Gilded Ones is what happens when the Dora Milaje of Black Panther were stuck in The Handmaid’s Tale fantasy and decide they weren’t going to take it anymore
The idea for The Gilded Ones came to Namina Forna while she attended Spelman College. She kept having dreams of a girl in Golden armor, on a battlefield and about to jump up and do things - but every time she wanted to make sense of it, the dream cut. So she decided to pen the dream to life on her pages making this book - one that embodied her rage at a society that objectified women and a story that drew from her experience growing up in a war-torn Sierra Leone. But this was a story no one said yes to until...
10 years later, Namina’s book The Gilded Ones is on the top of popular 2020 and 2021’s Most Anticipated book of the year.
So what changed?
Let's look Behind the Cover!
The Gilded Ones is what happens when the Dora Milaje of Black Panther were stuck in The Handmaid’s Tale fantasy and decide they weren’t going to take it anymore
The idea for The Gilded Ones came to Namina Forna while she attended Spelman College. She kept having dreams of a girl in Golden armor, on a battlefield and about to jump up and do things - but every time she wanted to make sense of it, the dream cut. So she decided to pen the dream to life on her pages making this book - one that embodied her rage at a society that objectified women and a story that drew from her experience growing up in a war-torn Sierra Leone. But this was a story no one said yes to until...
10 years later, Namina’s book The Gilded Ones is on the top of popular 2020 and 2021’s Most Anticipated book of the year.
So what changed?
Let's look Behind the Cover!
39 Min.