Region: Nigeria

Materials from Nigeria

How the Leopard Got His Claws

By Book Importer | Published: October 26, 2011

Recounts how the leopard got his claws and teeth and why he rules the forest with terror.

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Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria

By Book Importer | Published: August 15, 2011

A boastful strong man learns a lesson harder than his muscles when he encounters one of Nigeria’s superheroes in this Hausa tale which explains the origin of thunder.

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Anna Hibiscus’ Song

By Book Importer | Published: August 15, 2011

Anna Hibicus is so filled with happiness that she feels like she might float away. And the more she talks to her mother and father and grandfather and grandmother and aunties and cousins about it, the more her happiness grows! There’s only one thing to do. Sing!

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Emeka’s Gift

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

This is a concept book to teach and delight. As a young African boy travels to visit his grandmother, he passes through the village market, where he sees lots of things Granny would like — four brooms, five hats, six necklaces, seven musical instruments, and so on. Stunning photographs taken in Emeka’s southern Nigerian village [...]

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Chinye: A West African Folk Tale

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

Poor Chinye! Back and forth through the dark forest she goes, fetching and carrying for her cruel stepmother and lazy stepsister. Terror lurks behind every tree, and ghostly figures cross her path–but strange powers are watching over her, and waiting somewhere in the moonlight is a hut piled high with magic gourds.

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Why the Sky Is Far Away: A Nigerian Folktale

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

The 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.

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Good Luck, Anna Hibiscus!

By Book Importer | Published: February 10, 2011

Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. Amazing Africa. She cant wait to fly across the world and visit her Granny in Canada. But can she find warm clothes for the cold weather? And will her family even miss her?

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Amadi’s Snowman

By Book Importer | Published: July 6, 2010

As a young Igbo man, Amadi does not understand why his mother insists he learn to read, since he already knows his numbers and will be a businessman one day, but an older boy teaches him the value of learning about the world through books.

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Ancient African Town (Picture A Country)

By Book Importer | Published: February 8, 2010

The study of cultures of the past. A tour of Benin City, a West African town and capital of the Edo Empire, located in present-day Nigeria.

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Saying Good-bye: A Special Farewell to Mama Nkwelle

By auraenid | Published: December 1, 2008

This deeply personal story looks at the stately Nigerian funeral for the author’s grandmother, said to be “the greatest traditional dancer of her generation,” as told by Onyefulu’s young son. “When Mama Nkwelle died, everyone came to say good-bye. Uncle Asika said it was a special good-bye. It took more days than I can count [...]

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