Cultural Region/West Africa
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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale
$8.99 Add to cart“In this Caldecott Medal winner, Mosquito tells a story that causes a jungle disaster. “Elegance has become the Dillons’ hallmark. . . . Matching the art is Aardema’s uniquely onomatopoeic text . . . … [more below]
- Series: Picture Puffin Books
- Author: Aardema, Verna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0140549056
- Language: English
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Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
$18.99 Add to cartEmmanuel Ofosu Yeboah’s inspiring true story–which was turned into a film, Emmanuel’s Gift, narrated by Oprah Winfrey–is nothing short of remarkable.
Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed l- Author: Thompson, Laurie Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 06, 2015
- ISBN10: 044981744X
- Language: English
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Dazzling
$27.00 Read moreThe Girl with the Louding Voice meets The Water Dancer in Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ‘s magical, award-winning literary debut, Dazzling, offering a new take on West African
- Author: Emelumadu, Chikodili
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1419769790
- Language: English
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Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock
$8.99 Add to cartA classic trickster folktale told with humor and charm, this is a perfect read along book both parents and children will love.
When Anansi the Spider finds a strange moss-covered rock in the forest, h- Series: Anansi the Trickster #1
- Author: Kimmel, Eric A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0823407985
- Language: English
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Small Worlds
$27.00 Read moreAn exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and Costa First Novel Award winning author Caleb Azumah Nelson
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- Author: Nelson, Caleb Azumah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161960
- Language: English
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Half of a Yellow Sun
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST – From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists–a haunting story of love and war. – Recipient of the Women’s Priz… [more below]
- Author: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 1400095204
- Language: English
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Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
$29.99 Read more“Catch Me if You Can meets Coming to America in this epic tale of one of the greatest scammers of all time.”-NPR
Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year- Author: Yeebo, Yepoka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1635574730
- Language: English
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Like Thunder: The Desert Magician’s Duology: Book Two
$27.00 Read moreThis brand-new sequel to Nnedi Okorafor’s Shadow Speaker contains the powerful prose and compelling stories that have made Nnedi Okorafor a star of the literary science fiction and fantasy space and p… [more below]
- Series: The Desert Magician’s Duology
- Author: Okorafor, Nnedi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0756418798
- Language: English
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Shadow Speaker: The Desert Magician’s Duology: Book One
$27.00 Read moreAmazon 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0756418763
- Language: English
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The Most Secret Memory of Men
$19.99 Add to cartA Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times and The New Yorker and Longlisted for the National Book Award
A gripping literary mystery in the vein of Bola’s Savage Detectives, this coming-of-age novel un- Author: Sarr, Mohamed Mbougar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1635423279
- Language: English
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We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87
$10.00 Add to cartOur revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of man’s experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of all the revolutions of the world, of all the liberation struggl… [more below]
- Author: Sankara, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 111
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0873489896
- Language: English
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The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
$20.00 Add to cartThe “enlightening” (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors’ founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their desce
- Author: Raines, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982136154
- Language: English
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
$18.00 Add to cart**New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice**
To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative that is.- Author: Hammer, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04, 2017
- ISBN10: 1476777411
- Language: English
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Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti
$9.99 Add to cartA 1973 Caldecott Honor Book.
Anansi the Spider is one of the great folk heroes of the world. He is a rogue, a mischief maker, and a wise, lovable creature who triumphs over larger foes. In this tradit- Series: Cbb #49
- Author: McDermott, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0805003118
- Language: English
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Hebrewisms of West Africa
$26.00 Add to cartHebrewisms of West Africa
- Author: Williams, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: June 08, 2017
- ISBN10: 1631825917
- Language: English
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No One Dies Yet
$18.00 Read more- Author: Ben Ben, Kobby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1609457560
- Language: English
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Why the Sky Is Far Away: A Nigerian Folktale
$9.99 Add to cartThe sky was once so close to the Earth that people cut parts of it to eat, but their waste and greed caused the sky to move far away.
- Author: Gerson, Mary-Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0316308749
- Language: English
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Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun
$18.99 Add to cartBlack Panther meets X-Men in this “fast-paced, action-packed, and empowering” (A. F. Steadman, New York Times bestselling author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief) middle grade adventure about a Britis
- Series: Onyeka
- Author: Okogwu, Tolá
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 1665912618
- Language: English
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Nightbloom
$28.00 Read moreLonglisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Inseparable when they were girls but now estranged, cousins Akorfa and Selasi have to repair the silences between them or lose each other forever in this- Author: Medie, Peace Adzo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1643752847
- Language: English
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Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story
$8.99 Add to cartOppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award 2001
Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People for 2001
2001 ALA Notable Book for Children
2002-2003 Show Me Readers Award Master List
2003 Louisiana Yo- Series: Albert Whitman Prairie Paperback
- Author: Medearis, Angela Shelf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0807573167
- Language: English
