NAME IT FIRST

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For West African Women

The Daughters Who Built New Lives

The daughters who built new lives did not abandon the old ones. They held both.

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For the West African American woman navigating cultural expectations, diaspora identity, and the life she is building between heritage and her own choices.

You'll produce:your Your West African Self-Map

The Name It First Experience

West African cultural expectations shape everything — family obligation, community standing, the definition of a good woman. You have been holding it. This workbook asks what you keep and what you name as your own. The output is not a list of boundaries. It is Your West African Self-Map — a stress-tested and signed document naming the woman you are between heritage and the life you are choosing.

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Sample questions

  1. What did you build when you came here — and what are you still building?
  2. What does your West African identity mean in America — what does it give you, what does it cost?
  3. What would you want the next generation to understand about what it took to build this life?

Research basis

Cross on Nigrescence / Berry on acculturation / Crenshaw on intersectionality / Oyewumi on Yoruba gender constructs / West African feminist scholarship on labor visibility and cultural expectation

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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.

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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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Audiobook

We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.

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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

$9.99

Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership

Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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