Why Barrack Obama has never included African writers in his summer reading list

President Barrack Obama has now shared out the list of books he is going to be reading during his summer vacation in this August. The list includes both fiction and non-fiction; however it is so unfortunate that it does not have any book written by An African nor black American writer. The books so far on the list are;  Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Collectively, these books amount to 2000 pages which president Obama is to read through in this August during a vacation that will last only a fortnight.

Even though president Obama reads literature about slavery and black lives, he has never picked any work into his summer vacation reading list by an African writer. Even in the Last year president Obama also did not pick any literary work by an African writer. The list which only had only non-African writers included; All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri , Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates ,  and Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow.