• AFRICAN ICONS, ten people who shaped history

AFRICAN ICONS, ten people who shaped history

: Baptiste (T.) text & Wilson (H.) illus.

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159pp., colour illus., paperback, Reprint, Algonquin Young Readers, New York, (2021) 2024

ISBN: 9781523525706

 

Portraits of ten African kings, queens, inventors, scholars and visionaries: Menes, Merneith, Imhotep, Aesop, Hannibal Barca, Terence, Amanirenas, Tin Hinan, Mansa Musa and Queen Idia.

Suitable for ages 9-12.

"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, author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist 

Tracey Baptiste, a former educator, grew up in Trinidad. She is the author of the Jumbie series, Minecraft: The crash, as well as the pictures books Looking for a Jumbie and Mermaid and Pirate. She lives in New Jersey.