Cultural Region/African
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Story of the World, Text Bundle, Paperback Revised Edition: History for the Classical Child: Ancient Times Through the Modern Age
$83.80 Add to cartAvailable in paperback, this four-volume narrative world history tells the story of the entire globe, from the earliest nomadic humans all the way to the Persian Gulf war at the end of the twentieth c… [more below]
- Series: Story of the World #5
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1738
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1945841702
- Language: English
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Black Panther: Uprising
$16.99 Read moreFor all fans of Black Panther, this is the newest adventure of young T’Challa, prince of Wakanda, in the hit Young Prince series from Ronald L. Smith, recipient of the 2016 Coretta Scott King/John Ste… [more below]
- Series: The Young Prince
- Author: Smith, Ronald L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 136807300X
- Language: English
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Seeds of Corruption
$12.95 Read moreSet in the harsh desert of eastern Egypt, Seeds of Corruption is the tale of a Ulysses-like hero in search of himself and his ultimate salvation. The novel becomes a singularly compelling play between… [more below]
- Series: Emerging Voices (Paperback)
- Author: Moussa, Sabri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1566564573
- Language: English
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Tacko Fall: To New Heights
$17.99 Read moreThe inspiring true story of basketball phenom Tacko Fall–and his journey from West Africa to the NBA–will inspire young people to dream and do.
Tacko Fall was always tall, even as a child, but he w
- Author: Fall, Tacko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1536219584
- Language: English
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Northern Tanzania: Serengeti, Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar
$25.99 Read moreThis new, thoroughly updated fifth edition of Bradt’s Northern Tanzania Safari Guide remains the only full-length guidebook focused exclusively on the country’s north and on Zanzibar. Reflecting touri
- Author: Briggs, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1784777153
- Language: English
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Your Passport to South Africa
$31.32 Read moreWhat is it like to live in or visit South Africa? What makes South Africa’s culture unique? Explore the geography, traditions, and daily lives of South Africans.
- Series: World Passport
- Author: Tyner, Artika R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1666390240
- Language: English
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Illegal
$24.99 Read moreA powerfully moving, award-winning graphic novel that explores the current plight of undocumented immigrants from New York Times bestselling author Eoin Colfer and the team behind the Artemis Fowl gra
- Author: Colfer, Eoin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1492662143
- Language: English
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Safari, So Good! All about African Wildlife
$9.99 Read moreIn this latest installment of the Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library, the Cat takes Sally and Nick to Africa–where they meet some really big cats–and all sorts of other animals, too, including elepha… [more below]
- Series: Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Worth, Bonnie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0375866817
- Language: English
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Seaside Dream
$11.95 Add to cartIn this tender story of immigration, a young girl finds a way to give her grandmother the perfect present and the courage to plan a trip to her home country, Cape Verde.
Tomorrow is Grandma’s birthday,
- Author: Costa Bates, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1620142562
- Language: English
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The Ardent Swarm
$14.95 Add to cartFrom an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of revolution and the power of a single quest.
Sidi lives a hermetic life as a bee whisperer, tending to
- Author: Manai, Yamen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 154202045X
- Language: English
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Out of Africa: And Shadows on the Grass
$19.00 Add to cartSet in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen’s years in Africa–together with Shadows on the Grass.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Dinesen, Isak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724753
- Language: English
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Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime
$26.00 Read moreAward-winning journalist Anjan Sundaram, hailed as “the Indian successor to Kapuscinski” (Basharat Peer) and praised for “remarkable” (Jon Stewart), “excellent” (Fareed Zakaria), and “courageous and h… [more below]
- Author: Sundaram, Anjan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 164622115X
- Language: English
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Intellectual Warfare
$19.95 Read moreTestifying that the foundation of modern Western thought, theory, and practice can be traced back to ancient African thought, theory, and practice, this book exposes the African influence on Greek and… [more below]
- Author: Carruthers, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0883781808
- Language: English
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Elizabeti’s Doll
$11.95 Read moreA young Tanzanian girl finds a special doll, and realizes how much she loves the doll when she almost loses her.
Upon the arrival of her new baby brother, Elizabeti decides she needs a doll she can car
- Series: Elizabeti
- Author: Stuve-Bodeen, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1584300817
- Language: English
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Juba Good
$9.95 Read moreJuba, South Sudan.
RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson has spent eleven and a half months serving with the United Nations in the world’s newest country. He’s tired of the chaotic traffic and jostling crowds t- Series: Rapid Reads
- Author: Delany, Vicki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1459804902
- Language: English
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Dangerous Love
$18.99 Read moreFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of The Famished Road, a classic story of doomed love in a country trying to come to terms with its violent past.
An epic of daily life, Dangerous Love is one of Be- Author: Okri, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1635422663
- Language: English
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Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
$46.67 Add to cartWinner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship
A stunning work of popular history–the story of how a crop transformed the history of sla
Winner, Harriet Tubman Prize- Author: Lewis, Jori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1620971569
- Language: English
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The Language of Languages
$19.00 Read moreWith clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.
Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, pl- Series: Africa List
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803090715
- Language: English
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The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa
$18.99 Read moreFor more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundre
- Author: McKissack, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0805042598
- Language: English
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The Last Gift of the Master Artists
$29.99 Read moreThe Booker Prize-winning author, a child of the Nigerian Civil War, reinvents through the story of the Atlantic slave trade the beautiful soul and resilient culture of his country.
A boy and a girl me- Author: Okri, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1635422795
- Language: English
