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.

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.

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

Raised on isolated sugar plantations, from deep in the Zambezi valley inhabited by the two-toed Vadoma tribe, to the Kafue valley of the Batwa, and the Shire valley inhabited by the Chewa, Delta Papa is taught local traditions by the indigenous tribes, during an epoch when roads were tracks and communication was by word of mouth. Attending conservative boarding schools in the colonies he eventually emigrates to Europe. The calling for Africa is too great and he returns to run trucks in Mobutu's Zaire, and diving for sea-cucumbers in Mozambique and Somalia. As an emergency logistician with aid organisations, he describes the dangers, misery, passions and twists of fate, with a personal touch that will keep you riveted from start to finish.

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.