africa

Hippos spend more than 16 hours a day in the water. They can hold their breath underwater for five minutes. Find out more in Hippo, one of the titles in the Animals of Africa series. Each book in this series showcases one of Africa's most fascinating animals. Readers will learn about the animal's physical features, diet, and natural habitat as well as the challenges it faces.

Text and photographs look at Black history from the African empires through the early twenty-first century.

Explores the cultures, geography, and other interesting facts of Africa.

Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.

Sixteen-year-old Dirt, a retired elite female fighter, must enter the South God Bow tournament to protect her found family of younger sisters and their beloved Mud Fam.

"To protect our planet from N'Jadaka's violent invasion, the nation of Wakanda must go to war against its own future...and its first, best and only hope lies in the Panther! But where is he? Even the gods are beginning to despair--but Bast the panther god will not abandon her avatar, even if she has to recruit an outsider to save him! Coates brings T'Challa full circle back to the home he left behind...and the crown he has never fully accepted. This is the story of a king who sought to be a hero...a hero who was reduced to a slave...a slave who advanced into legend!"--Publisher.

Identifies and explores elemental ideas found throughout the mythologies of Africa, and compares and contrasts the local expressions of those ideas; concentrating on mythologies present before wide-scale contact between Africa and the Christian and Muslim worlds, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.

"Addresses general aspects of the elusive realm of African religious experiences, using selected examples of evidence of how Africans have acted in their encounter with the unknown world from ancient times. Religious concepts and symbolisms such as identifying the "supreme being", the supernatural, spirits and spiritualism, ancestral veneration, ritual and ritual objects and obligations, kinship and community relationships, spirit possession, libation, divination, festivals and festivities, birth, initiation, marriage and death rites, notions of witchcraft and witches, are discussed"--Provided by publisher.

"Grandmother's attacks on the creatures of Bravelands come to a head"--Provided by publisher.

After working together to obtain honey, the African honey badger always shares it with his partner, the honeyguide bird, until one day when the honey badger becomes greedy and his feathered friend decides to teach him a lesson.