Sponsored by Algonquin Young Readers
“This is a great beginner’s guide to pre-colonial Africa.” —Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist
Black history began long ago with the many cultures and people of the African continent. Through portraits of ten heroic figures, author Tracey Baptiste takes readers on a journey across Africa to meet some of the great leaders and thinkers whose vision built a continent and shaped the world. Illustrator Hillary D. Wilson’s brilliant portraits accompany each profile, along with vivid, information-filled landscapes, maps, and graphics for middle-grade readers to return to again and again.