africans

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Breaking the maafa chain

a novel
"Salimatu and her sister Fatmata are captured, sold to slavers, renamed and split apart. Forced to change their names to Sarah and Faith, they end up on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Faith is taken to America, where slavery is still legal and she is stripped of all rights. Sarah ends up in a Victorian England and as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria. Can the two sisters reclaim their freedom and identity in a world that is trying to break them down? Will these once inseparable sisters survive without each other? And if they do find each other again, will they find the other changed beyond recognition?"--Provided by publisher.

The African samurai

a novel /(Historical Fiction)
"Set in the late sixteenth century, and traversing Africa, India, and Japan, African Samurai is a powerful literary historical novel based on the true-life story of Yasuke, Japan's first foreign-born samurai and the only samurai to be of African descent."--.

They came before Columbus

the African presence in ancient America
2003
Presents an argument that suggests Africans were in North America before Columbus, and provides documentary evidence to support the claim, citing the trade of plants, animals, and textiles between continents, as well as the diaries, journals, and accounts of explorers.

African founders

how enslaved people expanded American freedom
2022
"A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--.

Okoye to the people

As a new recruit of the Dora Milaje on her very first mission outside of Wakanda, Okoye is sent to Brownsville, a neighborhood of Brooklyn that's experiencing extreme gentrification. Spending time with the other young people of Brownsville, Okoye soon learns about the plans of Stella Adams, a wealthy, powerful real estate mogul who is behind most of the gentrification in the neighborhood, but she is shocked to discover Adams's hand in a more sinister plot: one involving a drug called PyroBliss that seems to be consuming Brownsville. While her captain, Aneka, and her King, T'chaka, refuse to take action, Okoye is conflicted on what to do. She wants to help her new friends but doesn't want to jeopardize their diplomatic mission, and Okoye is forced to make decision between her duty to her king and country and helping those that need her the most.

The people remember

2021
Recounts the journey of African descendants in America by connecting their history to the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

The girl who married a skull and other African stories

2018
In graphic novel format presents fifteen African fairy tales interpreted by modern cartoonists.

Sadiq and the pet problem

"Sadiq's third grade class decides that they want a classroom pet, and their teacher, Ms. Battersby, is okay with the idea, so the students form a club to decide what kind of pet to get, and to research how to take care of it"--Provided by publisher.

Sadiq and the green thumbs

"Even though it is summer, Sadiq goes to religious school four days a week to study the Quran; he and his friends find their teacher, Mr. Kassim, strict and intimidating, but when Sadiq finds out that Mr. Kassim has a injured shoulder he decides to volunteer to help with the gardening--and he convinces his friends to volunteer as well"--Provided by publisher.

Sadiq and the Ramadan gift

It's Ramadan, and in the spirit of the season, Sadiq and his friends want to give back to their community. The friends band together to raise money to build a new school for children in Somalia, and decide to put on a community iftar as a fund-raiser, but not everyone agrees where their efforts should be spent. Can they find a way to work together?.

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