About this guide
In celebration of Black History Month 2025, “Black Legacy and Leadership: Celebrating Canadian History and Uplifting Future Generations” this guide presents an array of works by Black authors and creators – with a general focus on Canadian authors and topics (some international authors are included!). This selection represents a small sampling of the works by Black authors that are available in the Camosun collection year-round.
Visit the Government of Canada Canadian Heritage Black History Month site or the BC Black History Awareness Society for information about Black History Month.
If you have suggestions for resources that are not yet part of our collection, please let us know by emailing your ideas to library@camosun.ca.
The 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology by 
You Don't Know us Negroes and Other Essays by 
Make the World New: The Poetry of Lillian Allen by 
Suzette Mayr, 2011
Call number: PS 8576 A9 M64 2011
André Alexis, 2019
E-book and in print: PS 8551 L474 D39 2019
David Chariandy, 2018
PS 8605 H3685 Z46 2018
Kagiso Lesego Molope, 2018
Call number: PS 8576 O45165 S83 2018
David Chariandy, 2018
Call number: PS 8605 H3685 B76 2018
Jeffrey Covin, 2019
Call number: PS 3603 O4685 A37 2019
Esi Edugyan, 2019
Call number: PS 8555 D795 W37 2019
Dionne Brand, 2019
Call number: PS 8553 R275 T44 2019
Suzette Mayr, 2022
E-book
Nnedi Okorafor, 2016
E-book
Janelle Monáe, 2022
Call number: PS 3613 O52266 2022
Marlon James, 2020
PR 9265.9 J358 B58 2020
Colson Whitehead, 2020
PS 3573 H47 N53 2020
Bolu Babalola, 2022
E-book
Grace Byers, 2018
Call lnumber: PZ 8.3 B992 Iam 2018
Shauntay Grant, 2018
Call number: PZ 7 G7367 Af 2018
Winsome Bingham, 2021
Call number: PZ 7.1 B5347 So 2021
Tami Charles, 2020
Call number: PZ 7.1 C4915 All 2020
Tasha Spillet-Sumner, 2022
Call number: PZ 7.1 S7147 Be 2022
Esi Edugyan, 2023
Call number: PZ 7 E248 Ga 2023
Cedella Marley, 2011
Call number: PZ 8.3 M39178 On 2011
Sharee Miller, 2018
Call number: PZ 7 M6336 Don 2018
Directed by Gilles Doiron, 2024
Running time: 3 minutes
Directed by Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams, 2021
Running time: 1 hour 19 minutes
Directed by Michael Mabbott & Lucah Rosenberg-Lee, 2024
Running time: 1 hour 39 minutes
Written and directed by Cheryl Foggo, 2020
Running time: 1 hour 12 minutes
Written and directed by Ajahnis Charley, 2020
Running time: 10 minutes
Written and directed by Sandamini Rankaduwa, 2019
Running time: 15 minutes
Written and directed by Josiane Blanc, 2019
Running time: 23 minutes
Written and directed by Jill Haras, 2002
Running time: 8 minutes
Written and directed by Mina Shum, 2015
Running time: 1 hour, 21 minutes
Written, directed, and animated by Martine Chartrand, 2012
Running time: 10 minutes
Directed by Ho Che Anderson, featuring Munira Abukar, 2020
Running time: 3 minutes
Written and directed by Will Prosper, 2019
Running time: 1 hour, 20 minutes
Written and directed by Dana Inkster, 2007
Running time: 42 minutes
The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging by 
Undisputed: A Champion's Life by 
Where Beauty Survived: An Africadian Memoir by 
Lawrencia's Last Parang: A Memoir of Loss and Belonging as a Black Woman in Canada by 
King : a life by 
#BlackInSchool by 
Colour Matters: Essays on the Experiences, Education, and Pursuits of Black Youth by 
Decolonizing Equity by 
Appealing Because He Is Appalling by 
Disorientation: Being Black in the World by 
Holding Her Own: the Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes by 
Shine Bright by 
The Soul of a New Cuisine by 
Charity Marsh & Mark V. Campbell, 2020
E-book
Karina Vernon, 2020
Call number: PS 8235 B53 B53 2020
George Elliott Clarke, 2017
E-book
Cheryl Thompson, 2019
Call number: HQ 1220 C3 T46 2019
Nina Reid-Maroney, Boulou Ebanda de B'beri & Wanda Thomas Bernard, 2018
Call number: FC 106 B6 W66 2018
Celcil Foster, 2019
Call number: HD 6528 R36 F67 2019
Graham Reynolds with Wanda Robson, 2018
Call number: FC 2346.26 D48 R49 2018
Ingrid R. G. Waldron, 2018
Call number: HC 120 E5 W35 201
Amal Madibbo, 2021
E-book
Harvey Amani Whitfield, 2022
Call number: HT 1052 M37 W535 2022
Michele A. Johnson & Funké Aladejebi, 2022
Call number: FC 106 B6 U57 2022
