For the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and 28 is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she bears witness and brings to life men, women, and children involved in every AIDS arena, explorin..
In this stunning Coretta Scott King Award–winning picture book, take a magical and resonant journey to Africa."I went all the way to Africa / In a dream one night / I crossed over the ocean / In a slow, smooth jump..."In words that sing and pictures that evoke the rich life and culture of the Africa..
For years, it had been what is called a "deteriorating situation." Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his village. What happens to the Smaleses and..
Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day - and she ha..
Presented in a landscape format with vivid photographs of Africa, this book offers a pictorial exploration of this great and varied continent in all its majesty. The world’s second-largest and second-most-populous continent with 1.3 billion inhabitants, Africa offers a diversity of culture and ..
Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse.In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and..
When Ajala is not escaping an assassination attempt and dodging the bullets of eager security agents around the Duke of Edinburgh in Sydney, he is crashing his scooter, amid a hail of gunfire, through a border between Jordan and Israel—or he is cutting through security to shake the hands of Nikita K..
China today is both a land of opportunity for Africans blocked from commerce with most of Europe and Northern America, and an intersection of racism and prejudice. Noo Saro-Wiwa goes in search of China’s ‘Black Ghosts’, African economic migrants in the People’s Republic, who live in clustered c..
Berlitz Phrasebook and Dictionary Portuguese, Tswana, Shona, Afrikaans, French and Swahili Compact, clear, and packed with key words and phrases to help conversation, this pocket-sized Portuguese, Tswana, Shona, Afrikaans, French and Swahili phrasebook and dictionary from Berlitz's trusted language ..
From the author of the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Not on Our Watch, John Prendergast co-writes a compelling book with Fidel Bafilemba--with stunning photographs by Ryan Gosling--revealing the way in which the people and resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been used t..
Ibrahim Mustapha’s Giants of Africa is one of Africa’s foremost guides to building long lasting business ventures. Kicking off from the heartbeat of the Sahara, North Africa, he uncovers the humble beginnings of famous business giants, who against all odds, defied mediocrity and timidity, ..
Ibrahim Mustapha’s Giants of Africa is one of Africa’s foremost guides to building long lasting business ventures. Kicking off from the heartbeat of the Sahara, North Africa, he uncovers the humble beginnings of famous business giants, who against all odds, defied mediocrity and timidity, ..