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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself alone and wondering who she really is. Her mother's death leads her to find her father's...
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Series
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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The remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a ferocity unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, it follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and prepares them for battle against an enemy determined to obliterate their way of life. Some things are worth fighting for.
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Series
Kingdom of souls volume 1
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English
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Born into a family of powerful witchdoctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. But each year she fails to call forth her ancestral powers, while her ambitious mother watches with growing disapproval. There's only one thing Arrah hasn't tried, a deadly last resort: trading years of her own life for scraps of magic. Until the Kingdom's children begin to disappear, and Arrah is desperate to find the culprit. She uncovers something worse. The long-imprisoned...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color photographs, map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book introduces the West African Kingdoms and describes the daily life of the people and rulers of the Kingdom of Ghana around 300 C.E., the Kingdom of Mali around 1235 C.E. and the Kingdom of Songhay around 1464 C.E.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties, a child soldier, in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala and starring Idris Elba.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
191 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
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"A motley crew of outcasts finds themselves caught up in a deadly power struggle for control of an ancient artifact of immense power. This striking sci-fi love letter to the African continent whisks you from the neon-drenched megalopolis of Eko City, Nigeria, to the sun-kissed estuaries of the Niger Delta." --
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
499 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe,...
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Nubia volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 352 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a climate-ravaged New York deeply divided by class, Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho, three teens of refugees from a fallen African utopia, begin to develop supernatural powers.
Before Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho were born, a massive storm destroyed their ancestral homeland, forcing their families to flee across the ocean to New York City. Nubia, an island nation off the coast of West Africa, was no more, and their parents’ sorrow was too deep...
11) Reaper of souls
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Series
Kingdom of souls volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
436 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Achieving long-coveted magic at a devastating price, Arrah returns to tribal lands to search for the remnants of her parents' people while struggling to decipher her mysterious connection to the Demon King.
After years yearning for the gift of magic, Arrah discovers it comes at a terrible price. Now the last surviving witchdoctor, she is left to pick up the shattered pieces of a family that betrayed her, a kingdom in shambles, and long-buried secrets...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2015, Dionne Searcey was covering the economy for The New York Times, living in Brooklyn with her husband and three young children. Saddled with the demands of a dual-career household and motherhood in an urban setting, her life was in a rut. She decided to pursue a job as the paper's West Africa bureau chief, landing with her family in Dakar, Senegal, where she found their lives turned upside down. They struggled to figure out how they fit into...
13) The wind rises
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Series
Alma (de Fombelle) volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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It is 1786. Isolated from the rest of the world, thirteen-year-old Alma lives with her family in a lush African valley. She spends her days exploring their blissful homeland. But everything changes when her little brother finds a secret way out of the valley. Alma sets out to find him, but she soon must face terrible dangers in a continent ravaged by the slave trade. The journey to bring her brother home becomes a harrowing adventure to save herself,...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
173 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"The plucky, troublemaking Akissi is back with her mischief on The Ivory Coast! This time, she has to keep herself from drowning, stand up to a bully, make peace with her arch nemesis--the prettiest girl in school, and evade a witch doctor's potion."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
179 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"Our favorite troublemaker is back in this graphic novel collection of wild childhood adventures set on the Ivory Coast! Akissi and her posse are still wreaking havoc wherever they go. Join her as she tackles skeletons, plays matchmaker with mixed results, dreads moving to the wolf-infested wilds of Paris, and writes poetry, which stinks."--Provided by publisher.
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