Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less

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Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less (2021, Simon & Schuster)

224 pages

English language

Published May 8, 2021 by Simon & Schuster.

ISBN:
9781982168063

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What I needed after Marie Kondo

4 stars

I randomly came across this audio book in my uni's collection. I first learned about Marie Kondo first came out in 2014. Since middle school, I have been vertical folding, and have been notoriously known for having organized collections. Much of the specifics I have forgotten since then, but it motivated something special in me about my own spaces, though in combination with cultural expectations, many of those initial words of advice have become diluted. Yet as I've distanced from it along with the ways it's been tied into trauma, with her own Netflix show, Kondo has become as popular as ever.

The Afrominimalist is well aware of these trends and is what I needed to ground myself in what minimalism means to me and my cultures. The Afrominimalist looks at the context of why our spending and owning habits have formed to what they are today, and how we …