My Papa Went to Africa is an odyssey of learning and discoveries that kids everywhere will enjoy. The story begins when a child’s grandfather takes a series of connected flights to Africa, a land with a rich history and culture. He visits countries like Kenya, Mali, and Burkina Faso, where he encounters interesting people, old customs, playful children, and outstanding animals. He continues to explore more of Africa by taking trips to places like Bamako, Sikasso, Ougadougou, Koure, and Birni N’Konni. Just what else can he discover there? Read the book to find out. Laced with colorful artwork, My Papa Went to Africa will give young readers a respectful and truthful portrayal of Africa and its people. Love, Papa

This encyclopedia explores the many long-standing influences of Africa and people of African descent on the culture of the Americas, while tracing the many ways in which the Americas remain closely interconnected with Africa. Ranging from the 15th century to the present, Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History explores the many ways Africa and African peoples have shaped the cultural life of the Americas—and how, in turn, life in the Americas reverberates in Africa. This groundbreaking three-volume encyclopedia offers hundreds of alphabetically organized entries on African history, nations, and peoples plus African-influenced aspects of life in the Americas. It also features authoritative introductory essays on history, culture and religion, demography, international relations, economics and trade, and arts and literature. In doing so, it traces the complex and continuous movement of peoples of African descent to the West, the mechanics and lingering effects of colonialism and the slave trade, and the crucial issues of cultural retention and adaptation that are essential to our understanding of the effects of globalization.

Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This edition makes Beatriz Gois Dantas's historioethnographic study available to an English-speaking audienc

This follow-up to the best-selling Mama, Do You Love Me? (over one million copies sold in 15 languages!) captures the universal love between a father and child. Set in Africa and featuring the Maasai culture, the beautiful watercolor illustrations, lyrical text, and enduring message are sure to make this another instant classic.

Nestling among the mountains and valleys in a far corner of the northernmost province of South Africa is a farm called Woodbush. Here, in the years before and after the turn of the last century, the Hirschmann family, from Courland, Latvia, made their home. After leaving their loved ones and crossing thousands of miles of ocean and continent to escape discrimination and persecution, they found refuge in this wild, undeveloped and beautiful part of Africa. Here was a land as far different in culture, climate and terrain as it was distant from the East European cities from which they came.

In 1838, the British government outlawed the slave trade, emancipated all of the slaves in its possessions, and began to interdict slave ships en route to the Americas. Almost at once, colonies that had depended on slave labour were faced with a liberated and unwilling labour force. At the same time, newly freed slaves in Sierra Leone (and later from America and elsewhere) were "persuaded" to emigrate to other British colonies to provide a new workforce to replace or augment remnants of the old. Some became paid labourers, others indentured servants. These two groups - one, English-speaking colonists; the other, new African immigrants - are the focus of this study of "receptive" communities in the West Indies. Adderley describes the formation of these settlements, and, working from scant records, tries to tease out information about the families of liberated Africans, the labour they performed, their religions, and the culture they brought with them. She addresses issues of gender, ethnicity, and identity, and concludes with a discussion of repatriation.