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Kofi's safe world is suddenly shattered by white men who have arrived from the coast, stealing his people to sell into slavery.

Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria.

A biography of the son of a Thembu chief who became a civil rights activist, political prisoner, and president of South Africa.

A biography of the black South African leader who became a civil rights activist, political prisoner, and president of South Africa.

At the dawn of the eighteenth century, Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe, set sail from Jamaica on a pirate vessel, hoping to escape from an arranged marriage and slavery.

A lyrical story-in-verse that details the experiences of an African boy who was kidnapped and sold into slavery.

A brief look at the life and political career of Nelson Mandela.

Fifteen black and African-American tales of the supernatural from various states and several Caribbean countries.

Tells the story of the life of Nelson Mandela, the son of a tribal chief in South Africa whose belief in standing firm for what is fair and just led him to become a leader in his country against the system of apartheid.

Zolani, who lives in a rural black homeland in South Africa, goes with his mother to visit his Grandma Zindzi.

Thembi and her beloved great-grandmother, who has not left the house for many years, go together to vote on the momentous day when black South Africans are allowed to vote for the first time.

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven.

In Gee's Bend, Alabama, a mule takes part in the civil rights movement.

A biography of basketball star center Hakeem Olajuwon from his childhood in Nigeria to his early success at the University of Houston to his star status with the Houston Rockets.

Presents the life of a twelve-year-old girl who lives in Soweto, a suburb of Johannesburg, under a system of apartheid.