The Black Ancestor

When Leodine, a young white girl living in the Belgian Congo, discovers that her great-grandmother was African, she feels tainted and somehow unclean. New dilemmas arise in her life: Should she continue to befriend Yolande, the mulatto girl at her school? Or will her white friends begin to suspect she and Yolande share a common ancestry? Amid much internal confusion, Leodine embarks on a journey, both physical and metaphysical, in search of her true identity. The Black Ancestor is part of Russo's award-winning African trilogy, which also includes Eclipse over Lake Tanganyika and Mixed Blood.