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Amma is a British black African woman living in London in her fifties. She works as a theater director with her friend Dominique. She is openly a dyke (Lesbian) in polyamorous relationships and a feminist.
Her father is a socialist and patriarchist born in Ghana (1920s) and her mom was born in London (1960s) and she maintains the family.

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"she listened as they debated what it meant to be a black woman what it meant to be a feminist when white feminist organizations made them feel unwelcome ..."

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" On Our Own Terms or Not At All". (page 20)

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"The Importance of Being Female, FGM: The Musical, Dis-arranged Marriage, Cunning Stunts, were performed in community centres, libraries, fringe theatres, at women’s festivals and conferences" (page 21)

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Yazz is Amma’s and Roland's (biological father) daughter and "Mum’s emotional caretaker". She portrays the modern-day enlightened and woke teenager (19 yro.). She is revolutionary, rebellious, open-minded, and pretty over-confident. She is a "Humanitarian" (not a feminist?!) and a community activist. She is currently studying and planning to be a Journalist.

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"Formation" is a defiant celebration of black womanhood. I related it to Yazz and her recklessness and confidence which Beyoncé portrays.

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She’s a lesbian of Caribbean heritage. Dominique follows an African-American woman (Nzinga) to United States into Freedomia. She is basically held hostage during her toxic relationship with Nzinga until she escapes after a few years.

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Businesswoman. Studied math at Oxford University. Is the Vice president of a bank

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Amma’s friend.
She was über-cool, totally gorgeous, taller than most women,

thinner than most women, with cut-glass cheekbones and smoky

eyes with thick black lashes that literally cast a shadow on her face

she wore leathers, kept her hair short except for a black fringe

swept to one side

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She was raped by a group of boys when she was 13. Later on, she becomes the best student by Miss King tutoring and hard work. Her mother, Bummi, fears she is loosing her Nigerian roots after going to university and having a white british boyfriend which she didn't approve.

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LaTisha was a good friend of Carole throughout high school. She's rebellious and unmanageable.
She works as a supervisor at a supermarket, where she likes to keep it smart and professional. She is a young mother of three, Jason, Jantelle, and Jordan.

Relationships:
- Dad: bodybuilder, has favoritism towards LaTisha. He left, when Latisha started secondary school, to another family, with one of mum's friends from work Marva, whom she has Tiannah, her biological daughter
- Mom/Pauline: she grew up in Liverpool, went to a church school, works as a social worker.
- Jayla: Sister, from another man (Jimmi)
-Aunty Angie

Dwight: a security guard at the store, Jason's father
Mark: Jantelle's father, they met at the nightclub
Trey: Jordan's Father

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(To add context to Bummi's background and roots) “Makoko-on-water” is a town in Lagos located on the shore of its mainland. One-third of the community is built on stilts along the lagoon, where Bummi and her mother lived, and the rest is on land. Makoko is a very poor area of Nigeria and since it's close to its shore there is garbage water and very poor sanitation, not to mention the government doesn’t do anything about it and keeps promising its community to take measures regarding cleaning the contaminated waters, building better houses and schools, providing food and jobs opportunities.

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Bummi is Carole's Mother. She was born and raised in Nigeria and after she finished her studies she moved to London with her husband, Augustine. She is an orphan and a widow after both her parents died in Nigeria when she was a kid and, later on, her husband died due to a heartattack. She is a very hardworking, determined and educated woman and ends up becoming and entrepreneur, creating her own cleaning company. She starts a lesbian relationship with a woman she met at church and also she has sex with a rich man in exchange for money to start her bussiness, both relationships make her feel guilty. Lastly she meets Kofi a respectfull gentleman who she eventually marries.

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"Shirley tries not to succumb to the paranoia that comes from thinking every negative reaction is due to her skin colour her mother told her she’ll never know for sure why people take against her unless they spell it out, don’t assume people don’t like you because of your race, Shirl, maybe they’re having a rough day or they’re bad-tempered people"

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"Shirley became an experienced schoolteacher who remained committed to giving the kids a fighting chance"

She mentors students and comes across Carole who becomes a beneficiary of this in the future. Shirley gets married to Lenox. However,  Lenox is having a secret affair with Shirley’s mother, Winsome.
She used to do all the housework when she was younger since her brothers, Tony and Errol didn't. She was always insecure about her skin color and discriminated at school for it.