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With Her Princess GieGie Children’s Book Series, Model Georgie Badiel Is Telling the Stories of African Girls

ESSENCE: Your first book, The Water Princess, was published by a major publishing group, but now you’re choosing to go independent. Why?GEORGIE BADIEL: I wanted to be the sole author of my book.
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With Her Princess GieGie Children’s Book Series, Model Georgie Badiel Is Telling the Stories of African Girls

A year later, she cowrote The Water Princess, a semiautobiographical children’s book about a young girl trying to bring clean water to her village. Through her foundation, Badiel is building and ...