• Gizo-Gizo: Tatsuniya daga Tafkin Zongo (Hausa, Hardcover)

    Age Range: 5 – 12 years

    Hausa language edition

    Gizo-Gizo! was awarded Best Book for young people in the 25th Children’s Africana Book Awards.

    In Hausa culture, you always begin telling a story in the same way: The storyteller says, “Ga ta nan ga ta nanku!” “I am about to begin!” And the children respond, “Tazo Mujita!” “We are all ears!”

    Using story as the primary learning, teaching and engagement tool, the Zongo Story Project strives to elevate proficiencies in oral, written, and visual forms of literacy; promote the knowledge building of local history, local culture and local contemporary concerns; and lay the crucial foundation for the acquisition of vital twenty-first century critical thinking skills. The conceptual framework for this project originated out of a larger, community-based initiative called the Zongo Water Project, whose mission is to use water as a way to improve the quality of life for the Zongo.

    Working closely with local teachers, Emily Williamson carried out a series of educational workshops at the Hassaniyya Quranic School in the summers of 2012, 2013, and 2014 to teach students about local water and environmental concerns. Employing the story as the foundational element, Emily engaged students in dialogue, shared readings, performances, writing exercises, and visual art, culminating in community drama performances and original folktales.

    The illustrations and text of this book grew directly out of the work produced in these workshops.

  • How Stories Spread Around the World

    Age Range: 6 – 10 years

    In a magical journey, Rogério Andrade Barbosa and Graca Lima transport us to the African continent, with its many faces, colours, smells, sounds, gestures and shapes.

    It is a little mouse that guides us throughout this story. It hears everything and sees everything. It observes the many faces of several human groups that inhabit the African continent in their daily activities. Through the watching eye of this mouse we are shown customs, religion, economic activities, histories and the cultural universe of different peoples.

    How did the stories spread out around the world? It is a trip to unknown and mysterious places…

  • Hi, Zoleka!

    Age Range: 6 – 10 years

    “Hi, Zoleka’, friends call.

    But Zoleka has something on her mind. So she walks quietly with her mother and her little brother to church. Will she remember all the words of the verse she has to recite for the Palm Sunday service?

    Children’s picture book about a little Girl in South Africa.

    Hi, Zoleka!

    40.00
  • Children of the Tree

    Age Range: 7 – 12 years

    This is the story of the origins of the people of Namibia. It is derived from folklore, historical accounts and archaeological findings.

  • Nana’s Son

    Age Range: 7 – 12 years

    A myth about the creation of the first human being and how all the various body parts function together.

    Nana’s Son

    40.00
  • Elmina, ‘The Little Europe’: European Impact and Cultural Resilience (Hardcover)

    This is a brief introduction to the history of Elmina, its castle, the people, and their traditions. It outlines the town’s 500-year relations with Europeans, highlighting the transformations that have developed out of these interactions. Written by one of the top historians of Ghana and a leading scholar of the African diaspora, the book is based on original archival information and orally-derived sources. It is also richly informed by the writer’s own personal knowledge as a Nyampa Safohen and citizen of Elmina. Despite the tremendous changes engendered by the European contact, Elmina’s historical development demonstrates an amazing degree of cultural continuity and resilience in its political institutions, social organization, economic systems and worldview.

  • Jamela’s Dress

    Age Range: 4 – 7 years

    Mama is very pleased with the dress material she has bought for Thelma’s wedding. Jamela can’t resist wrapping the material around her and dancing down the road, proud as a peacock, to show Thelma her beautiful dress! When things go wrong, Mama is very sad indeed, but there’s a happy ending just in time for Thelma’s wedding day – and guess who has the biggest smile…Kwela Jamela, African Queen, that’s who!
  • A Song for Jamela

    Age Range: 6 – 12 years

    The summer holidays are here and all Jamela can think about is the Afro-Idols TV final. So, when she lands a job at Divine Braids hair salon, she can’t believe her eyes to see Afro-Idols celebrity, Miss Bambi Chaka Chaka, in the salon. But while Jamela’s idol dozes and Aunt Beauty designs her starry hairdo, a buzzy fly threatens to ruin everything. Can creative Jamela save the day?
  • Tawia Goes to Sea

    Age Range: 6 – 10 years

    Received a UNESCO citation as Best Picture Book from Africa

    Tawia lives in a fishing village near Accra. He longs to go to sea with the men, but they tell him he is too young. Undaunted and headstrong Tawia builds his own coconut canoe and sets it out to sea.

  • Mimi Mystery (Hardcover)

    Age Range: 7 – 12 years

    A little girl with an angelic voice is banned by her mother from singing in public because it is taboo in her society for a respectable female to sing in public. Belayn is devastated! She loves singing! How does little Belayn do what she loves most without offending her family?

  • Journey

    ‘Journey is an absorbing exploration of reality in contemporary Ghana, juxtaposing tradition and modernity, wise old age and frivolous youth, north and south, male and female…as a first novel, it is also valuable as it uses a northern Ghanaian setting.’ – Kari Dako, Author, translator and lecturer, Department of English, University of Ghana.

    Journey

    50.00
  • Fati and the Green Snake

    Age Range: 5 – 7 years

    Fati’s adventures send her looking for firewood on the farm. As she looks for pieces of firewood, Fati’s attention moves to the other things around her and she sees a beautiful green leaf, touches it and… uh! It did not feel like a leaf. It was a green snake.

    Fati and the Green Snake is in the Fati series, and is based on the real life adventures of a young girl growing up in northern Ghana. It has been adapted for print by the Osu Library Fund, an organisation which promotes literacy in Ghana.

  • Fati and the Old Man

    Age Range: 5 – 7 years

    Who is chasing Fati? This time round little Fati is in trouble with an old man she caught stealing pito. The old man says he did not take the pito but Fati DID see him take pito that was not his…! Who is speaking the truth? Find out in this new Fati episode.

    Fati and the Old Man is sequel to the first book Fati and the Honey Tree and is based on the real life adventures of a young girl growing up in northern Ghana. It has been adapted for print by the Osu Library Fund, an organisation which promotes literacy in Ghana.

  • Pencil on Assignment

    We find ourselves in a temporary world where many are focused on leaving temporary marks rather than eternal ones. Young people today are looking for fame, riches, luxury, without looking for their primary goal on earth.

    This book gives an insight to give key issues from the view point of a pencil to address the greatest quest in life; purpose. It looks at the relationship between;

    • The pencil and its marks
    • The pencil and the eraser
    • The pencil and the lead
    • The pencil and the sharpener
    • The pencil and the hand (user)

    The book also addresses issues such as:

    • Leaving a positive mark
    • Who can be saved?
    • What next after salvation?
    • Does a Christan skate through life trouble-free?
    • How can the best in you be seen?

    Everyone is leaving a mark on this earth, but the big question is,  “How relevant is your mark in your generation and the generations yet to come?”

    Don’t strive to be better than someone; strive to be the best you.

  • Yennenga: The Dagomba Princess (Hardcover)

    Age Range: 7 – 12 years

    Yennenga was very atheletic and she learnt to shoot arrows, and throw spears. She also learnt the art of horse riding. Her father gave her a special stallion called Ouedrago. At age fourteen she was a very skillful horse rider and an adept javelin thrower. Her father therefore took her to battles. She was a very good warrior! Her father became very proud of her and, in fact, made her a battalion commander. At fourteen years of age, Yennenga started helping her father in battles. Because of her skill in battle, her father refused to give her away in marriage. Yennenga loved fighting for her father in war but she also yearned to be a married woman and have children of her own. However, her father refused to give her away to any of the many suitors who sought her hand in marriage.

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