They love to dress and style their hair the same, but Tia's afro hair can be unruly and sometimes hurts to style and manage. Speaking during Black History Month, which runs in October in the UK, Tiana told the PA news agency: “I wanted to show that people who have my type of hair have challenges and sometimes find it hard to love their hair texture plus all the struggle of making it look beautiful. At the age of five, I started having writing classes with my mum who edited and guided me through writing short stories.

Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. I enjoyed flipping though the book and my two beautiful daughters virtually saw themselves in the pages of this book. Beautiful story of besties Tia and Aoki and how they surmounted challenges the class was facing ahead of picture day. It wasn’t something I consciously planned to do, but it was through realising that so many people were not being heard, having their voices diluted or having their stories told in a way that wasn’t authentic, that I decided to create a platform for these unheard stories and voices. You know, she’s not seen a book ever with a character with brown skin and dreadlocks, and the pleasure and pride on her face when she was saying it made me think, this is what I wanted to achieve through my books,” she added.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Will her mum be able to give Tia the same hairstyle as her twin best friend Aaoki for 'picture day'? You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It's about empowering young Afro hair babies to see the magic in their beautiful Fro's but not ignoring that their friends of other races are equally as beautiful and amazing. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

Even now, after the spike of black authors in 2020 post-George Floyd and the campaigns to publish more black authors, that figure now has dropped by 23%, and back in 2018, only 1% of main characters in children’s fiction were from Bipoc (black, indigenous and people of colour) backgrounds, which is now only 7%. Although I felt a little bit dejected, I believed in the messages in my books and but then I heard about Danni and Conscious Dreams Publishing through the launch of another published author, and I found somebody who also believed in my stories, and that was the beginning of a long, successful partnership, which is destined to continue with the publication of three more Nzingha books. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.