Ethnic Orientation/African
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
$24.99 Add to cart“Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it.” -President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an … [more below]
- Author: Mandela, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 638
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0316548189
- Language: English
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Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization: Exploding the Myths
$25.00 Add to cart- Series: Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization #1
- Author: Browder, Anthony T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 092494403X
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Emperor Haile Sellassie I: King of All Kings and Lord of All Lords; My Life and Ethopia’s Progress 1892-1937
$29.95 Add to cart- Series: My Life and Ethiopia’s Progress (Paperback) #1
- Author: Sellassie, Haile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0948390409
- Language: English
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Middle Passage
$18.00 Add to cartA twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece–“a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick…heroic in proportion…fiction that hooks the m… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0684855887
- Language: English
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Grandpa Cacao: A Tale of Chocolate, from Farm to Family
$18.99 Read moreThis beautifully illustrated story connects past and present as a girl bakes a chocolate cake with her father and learns about her grandfather harvesting cacao beans in West Africa.
Chocolate is the p- Author: Zunon, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1681196409
- Language: English
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Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War
$17.99 Read moreMichel Chikwanine was five years old when he was abducted from his school-yard soccer game in the Democratic Republic of Congo and forced to become a soldier for a brutal rebel militia. Against the od… [more below]
- Series: CitizenKid
- Author: Chikwanine, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1771381264
- Language: English
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Living in . . . South Africa: Ready-To-Read Level 2
$4.99 Read moreDiscover what it’s like to grow up in South Africa with this fascinating, nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a series all about kids just like you in countries around the world!
Dumela! My name- Series: Living In…
- Author: Perkins, Chloe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1481470922
- Language: English
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African Textiles
$150.00 Read moreThe African continent is home to numerous outstanding textile traditions, many dating to antiquity and all playing a multifaceted role in their respective societies: these eye-catching fabrics proclai
- Author: Clarke, Duncan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0789214504
- Language: English
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Durban Dialogues, Indian Voice: Five South African Plays
$25.65 Read moreDurban Dialogues, Indian Voice is an anthology of five engaging and eclectic South African plays by award-winning playwright Ashwin Singh. The plays selected, namely To House, Duped, Spice ‘n Stuff, R… [more below]
- Author: Singh, Ashwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1906582424
- Language: English
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Ayobami Y El Nombre de Los Animales (Ayobami and the Names of the Animals) = Ayobami and the Names of the Animals
$19.95 Read moreWinner of the 2018 International Latino Book Awards. With the only help of a paper and a spent pencil, Ayobami sets off on an exciting journey with a fundamental objective: to learn to read and write.
- Author: L?pez ?vila, Pilar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 8416733414
- Language: Spanish
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Inadan, the Mastery of Tuareg Artisans: Contemporary and Traditional Work in Metal, Leather, and Wood
$69.99 Read moreFor metalworkers, jewelry makers, leather crafters, and anyone interested in learning the crafting techniques of the Indigenous peoples of the Sahara. This book is a rare look at the artisans of the T… [more below]
- Author: Cheminée, Matthieu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366084
- Language: English
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My Name Is Tani . . . and I Believe in Miracles
$15.99 Add to cartAn amazing, miraculous refugee story of coming to America, the young readers edition of Tani Adewumi’s story will inspire kids looking for true stories of doing hard things.
At eight years old, Tani Ad
- Author: Adewumi, Tanitoluwa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1400218292
- Language: English
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Who Am I?: The Supreme Understanding (the Anatomy of Ego)
$15.95 Read moreEgo is the feeling of being separate from God, from that which is, Since we feel we are separate or distinct from the Creator, as well as creation itself, there is no sense of connection with our inne… [more below]
- Author: Ra Afrika, Bhagwau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: December 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0948390573
- Language: English
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Wherever I Go
$19.99 Read moreA hopeful and timely picture book about a spirited little girl living in a refugee camp.
Of all her friends, Abia has been at the Shimelba Refugee Camp the longest–seven years, four months, and sixte- Author: Copp, Mary Wagley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1534419195
- Language: English
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Brother Alive
$26.00 Read moreFrom the winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, CLMP Firecracker Award, and Bard Fiction Prize, National Book Award “5 Under 35” Honoree, and finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize, an astoni… [more below]
- Author: Khalid, Zain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159761
- Language: English
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Orange for the Sunsets
$9.99 Add to cart* A Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books of 2019 Selection * A Canadian Children’s Book Center Best Books for Kids & Teens Pick *
From debut author Tina Athaide comes a soaring tale of empat
- Author: Athaide, Tina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0062795309
- Language: English
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Last Gate of the Emperor
$17.99 Add to cartFrom Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel David Makonnen comes an Afrofuturist adventure about a mythical Ethiopian empire. Sci-fi and fantasy combine in this epic journey to the stars.
Yared Heywat lives an
- Author: Mbalia, Kwame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1338665855
- Language: English
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Minaret
$18.00 Read moreLeila Aboulela’s American debut is a provocative, timely, and engaging novel about a young Muslim woman — once privileged and secular in her native land and now impoverished in London — gradually em… [more below]
- Author: Aboulela, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 19 2005
- ISBN10: 0802170145
- Language: English
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War in the Land of Egypt
$12.95 Read moreEgypt on the eve of the 1973 October war. A young man has been drafted into the army. His father, the village elder, persuades a poor night-watchman to send his own son as a stand-in. But the imperson… [more below]
- Series: Emerging Voices (Paperback)
- Author: Al-Qa’id, Ysuf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1566562279
- Language: English
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$29.95 Read more“A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.”
“The eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Who’s Black and Why? contain a world of ideas–theo
—Publishers Weekly- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0674244265
- Language: English
