africa, west

An illustrated history of slavery in Africa and the Americas from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century.

Contains easy step-by-step instructions for preparing a variety of West African dishes.

Anansi and his wife outsmart the Sky God and win back the beloved folktales of their people.

Chinye is tortured by her stepmother and lazy stepsister. Then one night, as she is going through the forest to fetch water, an old woman tells her to take a gourd, which she does. Her lazy stepsister tries to duplicate the visit, with interesting results.

Reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz.

Lazy Anansi seeks to trick someone into doing the heavy work of laying his fish trap, but instead he is fooled into doing the job himself.

A brief biography of the self-educated nineteenth-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood and youth, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa in 1893 and 1894 and learned much about the area and its inhabitants.