Africa
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The Red Pencil
$34.99 Add to cart“Amira, look at me,” Muma insists.She collects both my hands in hers.“The Janjaweed attack without warning.If ever they come— run.”
Finally, Amira is twelve. Old enough to wear a toob, old enough for … [more below]- Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0316247804
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Book of African Animals
$19.99 Add to cartJoin this amazing team to learn all about Africa’s unique wildlife, including lions, elephants, cheetahs, zebras, giraffes, hippos, gorillas, rhinos, and so many more!
With so many species showcased, … [more below]- Author: Joubert, Beverly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 142637187X
- Language: English
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Diamond Boy
$19.99 Add to cartMy father says that a journey should always change your life in some way. Well, when you have nothing, I suppose a journey promises everything.
“Diamonds for everyone.” That’s what fifteen-year-old P- Author: Williams, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0316320684
- Language: English
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The Day Gogo Went to Vote
$8.99 Add to cartIllustrated in rich pastels, this child’s-eye view of an important milestone in South African history allows young readers to experience every detail of this eventful day.
- Author: Sisulu, Elinor Batezat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0316702714
- Language: English
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A Labyrinth of Secrets
$19.99 Add to cartTo avoid an arranged marriage, Joanna Nel flees Cape Town, distancing herself from a shocking secret revealed by her mother,
Petra, and escaping from a dangerous man. But life in Durban presents its o
- Author: Hayward, Glynnis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: December 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1736332821
- Language: English
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Jews Under Moroccan Skies: Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life
$19.95 Add to cartJews under Moroccan Skies tells the story of Jewish life in Morocco, describing in realistic detail how Jews and Muslims interweaved their lives in peace for centuries. The authors give us the rich hi… [more below]
- Author: Elmaleh, Rapha’el
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: May 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1935604244
- Language: English
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The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World
$28.32 Read moreThe landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author
In this award-winning investigation into the over- Author: Prashad, Vijay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977621
- Language: English
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You Are My Pride: A Love Letter from Your Motherland
$17.99 Read moreIn this powerfully written and beautifully illustrated picture book by award-winning author and illustrator team Carole Boston Weatherford and E. B. Lewis, Mother Africa addresses her offspring of all… [more below]
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1635923875
- Language: English
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Precolonial Black Africa
$16.95 Add to cartThis comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civili… [more below]
- Author: Diop, Cheikh Anta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 1988
- ISBN10: 1556520883
- Language: English
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Catch That Chicken!
$18.99 Read moreThe team behind Baby Goes to Market and B Is for Baby visit a Nigerian village for a humorous ode to childhood ingenuity.
Lami is the best chicken catcher in the whole village. Her sister may be speed- Author: Atinuke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1536212687
- Language: English
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Merry Christmas, Anna Hibiscus!
$7.99 Read moreWhen Anna leaves her family home in Africa to visit her Canadian grandmother, she discovers how resilient she can be in this fourth collection of stories from Atinuke’s beloved series.
Anna Hibiscus h- Series: Anna Hibiscus
- Author: Atinuke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1536231223
- Language: English
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Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man’s Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
$25.48 Add to cartNow part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa–and the terr
- Author: Lindqvist, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1565843592
- Language: English
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Good Luck, Anna Hibiscus!
$7.99 Read moreIt’s the dry, dusty winter season in Nigeria, and Anna Hibiscus is getting ready to visit her Canadian grandmother in the third adventure of Atinuke’s lively chapter-book series.
Anna Hibiscus can’t- Series: Anna Hibiscus
- Author: Atinuke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 153622524X
- Language: English
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Akata Witch
$18.99 Add to cartAffectionately dubbed “the Nigerian Harry Potter,” Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one’s place in the world.
Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but
- Series: The Nsibidi Scripts
- Author: Okorafor, Nnedi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0670011967
- Language: English
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Pickup
$22.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
“Ranks as one of Gordimer’s best novels…It transcends politics and aims at a meaning higher than human striving.”—
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Africa- Author: Gordimer, Nadine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1250024048
- Language: English
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African Nights: True Stories from the Author of I Dreamed of Africa
$14.99 Add to cartLyrical, beautifully written tales of life in Africa
Africa evokes a deep sense of mystery. It is a place that retains what most of the world has lost: space, roots, traditions, awesome beauty, true wi
- Author: Gallmann, Kuki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 22 2000
- ISBN10: 0060954833
- Language: English
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Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire
$70.00 Add to cartBetween Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire challenges orthodox views of the story of Africa under Roman domination. It presents a new framework for understanding this and other territories inc
- Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures
- Author: Mattingly, David J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: August 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0472133454
- Language: English
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Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
$6.95 Add to cartJoseph Lemasolai Lekuton gives American kids a firsthand look at growing up in Kenya as a member of a tribe of nomads whose livelihood centers on the raising and grazing of cattle. Readers share Lekut… [more below]
- Author: Viola, Herman J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0792272978
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition
$18.99 Add to cartNow a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village.
W- Author: Kamkwamba, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0803740808
- Language: English
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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
$19.99 Add to cartThe classic story of life in Apartheid South Africa.
Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars- Author: Mathabane, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 1998
- ISBN10: 0684848287
- Language: English
