Africa
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How Loud Is a Lion?
$7.99 Read moreNow in our chewable, bendable, and washable Barefoot Baby-Proof Format!
Cheetahs are spotty and zebras are stripy, but how loud is a lion? If you listen very carefully, you might just find out while- Series: Barefoot Baby-Proof
- Author: Blackstone, Stella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
$19.99 Read moreWangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the hills, fish filled the streams, and the peo
- Series: Frances Foster Books
- Author: Nivola, Claire A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0374399182
- Language: English
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Shadow Speaker: The Desert Magician’s Duology: Book One
$18.00 Add to cartAmazon Editor’s Pick, Best SFF September 2023 – The Strand, Science Fiction Pick of the Month October 2023
Deluxe, expanded edition of an out-of-print early novel from Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi O- Series: The Desert Magician’s Duology
- Author: Okorafor, Nnedi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0756419018
- Language: English
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The Tortured Traveller: How I Survived the Worst… Vacation… Ever
$19.99 Add to cartGet ready to laugh, shake your head in disbelief, and be inspired to travel (or not).
When Sheldon Herman’s house needs renovation, he decides the place to be during that time is as far away as possibl
- Author: Herman, Sheldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 199068839X
- Language: English
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How to Write about Africa: Collected Works
$20.00 Read moreFrom one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality
“A- Author: Wainaina, Binyavanga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 081298966X
- 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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I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon
$19.99 Read moreDiscover the true story of how environmentalist Farmer Tantoh is transforming the landscape in his home country of Cameroon.
When Tantoh Nforba was a child, his fellow students mocked him for his i- Author: Paul, Baptiste
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1512449148
- Language: English
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Gizo-Gizo!: A Tale from the Zongo Lagoon
$15.95 Read moreWinner of the 2017 Children’s Africana Book Award for Best Book, Young Readers
Gizo-Gizo the spider is a lazy, selfish fellow. So when he starts a gold mine that pollutes the Zongo Lagoon and makes
- Author: Williamson, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 159298665X
- Language: English
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Cuba & Angola the War for Free
$10.00 Add to cartBeginning in 1975 an epic battle was waged for the future of southern Africa. The Angolan people had just thrown off 500 years of Portuguese colonial brutality. Now South Africa’s white supremacist re… [more below]
- Author: Villegas, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 121
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1604880937
- Language: English
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Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
$12.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary memoir of an orphan who danced her way from war-torn Sierra Leone to ballet stardom, most recently appearing in Beyonce’s Lemonade and as a principal in a major American dance compan… [more below]
- Author: Deprince, Michaela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0385755147
- 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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Small Mercies
$15.95 Add to cartA 2022 Skipping Stones Honor Awardee
Mercy lives in mode
Named a Best Middle-Grade Book of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews
2021 Outstanding International Books List, United States Board on Books for Young People- Author: Krone, Bridget
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1946395161
- Language: English
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Bound to Violence
$19.99 Read moreThis critical edition of the epic 1968 Malian novel explores its enduring literary power and the racist plagiarism scandal that devastated its author, the first African winner of France’s prestigious … [more below]
- Author: Ouologuem, Yambo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1635423589
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Cape Town & the Garden Route
$24.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s Cape Town and the Garden Route is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences.
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Fitzpatrick, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1787016722
- Language: English
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Go Well, Anna Hibiscus!
$16.99 Add to cartThe spirited Anna Hibiscus leaves the city to visit her grandparents’ remote village in this sixth adventure in the well-loved series set in contemporary West Africa.
Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa, Am- Series: Anna Hibiscus
- Author: Atinuke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1536238112
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet South Africa, Lesotho & Eswatini
$26.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experienc
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Corne, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: December 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1838699465
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Africa
$28.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s Africa is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the continent has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Visit wineries on the
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Planet, Lonely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 952
- Publish Date: December 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1787015173
- Language: English
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Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space: A Literary Mixtape
$28.99 Add to cartA vibrant and brilliant new collection of award-winning short fiction from the acclaimed author of the “charming, witty, and incredibly humane” (The Pittsburgh Gazette) debut The Eternal Audience of O… [more below]
- Author: Ngamije, Rémy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1668012464
- Language: English
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Crossroads: I Live Where I Like: A Graphic History
$20.00 Read moreDrawn by South African political cartoonists the Trantraal brothers and Ashley Marais, Crossroads: I Live Where I Like is a graphic nonfiction history of women-led movements at the forefront of the st
- Series: Kairos
- Author: Benson, Koni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1629638358
- Language: English
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A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of Western Sudan with an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northen Nigeria
$34.95 Read moreWhen Lady Lugard sat down to write A Tropical Dependency, it was not her intention to inspire generations of Africans to regain the independence of their countries. Lugard writes of slavery as though … [more below]
- Author: Lugard, Flora Shaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 093312192X
- Language: English
