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Region: Nigeria
Yoruba Girl Dancing
For Remi, growing up in Nigeria is a celebration of love and family, eccentricity and old ritual. She feels confident in her privilege and grounded in the heart of her culture. But when she turns six, as if by some awful spell, she is sent to faraway England, to a posh all-girls’ boarding school where [...]
Other Descriptors: England (UK), Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Themes: Coming of age, Culture, foreign environment, Loneliness, prejudice, racial relation, Racism, surviving Leave a comment
The African Mask
Twelve-year-old Layo, a Yoruba girl living in the area of eleventh-century Africa which is now Nigeria, attempts to reject the man who has been chosen to be her husband.
Why The Sun And The Moon Live In The Sky
An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to build his house large enough, he and his wife, the moon, were driven into the sky when the water came to visit them.
The Other Side Of Truth
Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother’s murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of what may have happened to their journalist father back home.
Other Descriptors: Africa, Fiction, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8) Themes: conspiracy, journalist, Murder Leave a comment
How The Leopard Got His Claws
Recounts how the leopard got his claws and teeth and why he rules the forest with terror.
Other Descriptors: Africa, Folklore, Primary (Gr. K-3) Themes: Buddhism, Pandas, Storytellers Comments closed
Bobo And The Flying Crab
This is a story about Bobo, the boy who was taught to fly by his friends, Mot the moth and Moz the mosquito.
Other Descriptors: Africa, Folklore, Primary (Gr. K-3) Themes: Voyages and travels, Weaving and rugs Comments closed
Ancient African Town (Picture A Country)