The Fishermen
Chigozie Obioma
The Allyship Book Club
Read. Reflect.
Explore together.
Books can open up perspectives beyond our own. Join the conversation about the stories we read and the questions they leave with us.
Our current read
Best of Friends
A novel about a lifelong friendship and the ways power and history can shape our personal relationships.
We’ll use our reading as a starting point for reflection, listening and conversation. Bring your questions, your observations and the passages that stayed with you.
- When
- 3 November · 19:00 GMT
- Where
- Virtual
- Current book
- Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
Email Chikere for joining details and the meeting link.
About the book at Bloomsbury ↗Our shared bookshelf
Previously read
A growing collection of books we’ve explored together at the Allyship Book Club.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa
Disappoint Me
Nicola Dinan
Conditional Citizens
Laila Lalami
The Yield
Tara June Winch
James
Percival Everett
Building a Legacy of Love
Christy Byrne Yates
The Lagos Wife
Vanessa Walters
Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Keep exploring
What’s on the
Allyship bookshelf?
Fiction, memoir and non-fiction to spark curiosity, reflection and conversation. Books we’ve read together are marked below.
Natives
Akala
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Unbound
Tarana Burke
Brit(ish)
Afua Hirsch
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Subtle Acts of Exclusion
Tiffany Jana and Michael Baran
Disappoint Me
Nicola Dinan
Yoruba Boy Running
Biyi Bandele
Conditional Citizens
Laila Lalami
The Yield
Tara June Winch
James
Percival Everett
Building a Legacy of Love
Christy Byrne Yates
The Lagos Wife
Vanessa Walters
Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Why we read together
Curiosity.
Connection.
Conversation.
The Allyship Book Club is part of our wider community of learning. Reading together gives us a starting point to explore identity, belonging and the different experiences people bring to the world.
Run by Chikere Igbokwe, the club makes room for reflection and shared perspectives alongside Inclucive’s work on everyday allyship.
Questions to reflect on as you read
What does this story
invite you to notice?
What do the characters expect from each other, and how do those expectations change?
Where does power influence whose choices are heard, supported or challenged?
Which assumptions did the story encourage you to question?
Let’s make inclusion everyday
Good intentions.
Meaningful action.
Tell us what you want to change. Together, we’ll find a practical place to start.
Start a conversation