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1 online resource (xiii, 160 pages) : color illustrations |
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text file rda |
| Contents |
Introduction: When Africa Fueled the World -- The Sahara Yawns: Menes: Creator of Dynasties -- Merneith: A Queen Erased -- The Dawn of Egypt: Imhotep: From Peasant to God -- Metal Bonds -- Nature as Character: Aesop: The Wisest Man in the Ancient World -- Across the Waves: Hannibal Barca: Unparalleled Military Strategist -- Terence: North African Playwright -- Amanirenas: Warrior, Diplomat, Queen -- Where Few Dared to Tread: Tin Hinan: Founding a City on the Dunes -- Across the Golden Sand: Mansa Musa: The Richest Man of All Time -- The Catalan Atlas --The Power of the Griot -- Libraries in the Sand -- The Winds Change: Queen Idia: Kingmaker -- Culture Lost -- Author's note -- Source notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Designer's Note. |
| Summary |
"In African Icons, Baptiste engages in the hard work of unveiling the myths about the African continent to young readers . . . This is a great beginner's guide to pre-colonial Africa." --Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist Meet ten real-life kings, queens, inventors, scholars, and visionaries who lived in Africa thousands of years ago and changed the world. Black history began long ago with the many cultures and people of the African continent. Through portraits of ten heroic figures, author Tracey Baptiste takes readers on a journey across Africa to meet some of the great leaders and thinkers whose vision built a continent and shaped the world. Illustrator Hillary D. Wilson's brilliant portraits accompany each profile, along with vivid, information-filled landscapes, maps, and graphics for readers to pore over and return to again and again. |
| Audience |
Ages 9-12 Algonquin Young Readers |
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Grades 4-6 Algonquin Young Readers |
| Summary |
"Full-color portraits illustrate the stories of ten people-rulers, educators, inventors, scholars, and explorers-who helped shape the African continent and the world from ancient times through the tumultuous sixteenth century"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Kings and rulers -- Juvenile literature.
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Africa -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Africa -- Kings and rulers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Africa -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Africa.
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Africa -- Kings and rulers.
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Africa -- History.
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| Genre |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Wilson, Hillary D., illustrator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Baptiste, Tracey. African icons Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, 2021 9781616209001 (DLC) 2021011317 (OCoLC)1242021999 |
| ISBN |
9781643752303 |
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1643752308 |
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