A Collection of Poems About Reconciliation and Reclamation
By Toya P.Y.T. Fernandez
 
This is a reckoning.
 
In Dog. Eat. Africa., poet and restorative justice practitioner Toya P.Y.T. Fernandez offers a soul-stirring collection of poems born from her journey to Ghana, a spiritual return to the ancestral lands of her people. With raw vulnerability and fierce love, she writes about what it means to reclaim identity, witness generational trauma, and reconnect with the divine power of Black womanhood.
 
Through narrative poems, odes, sonnets, and prose poetry, Fernandez captures the heartbeat of Africa: the scent of cocoa butter, the haunting echoes of Elmina Castle, and the joyous resilience of village children dancing to the rhythm of the drum. These poems are prayer and protest; a reclamation of what was lost and a declaration of what still lives.
 
Dog. Eat. Africa. is an offering of truth, healing, and radical love. It is for anyone longing to return to land, to self, and to spirit.