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02907aam a22003733i 4500 001 9F1170AACA3D11EEB6B0F94039ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240213010033 008 230610s2024 ncua j 000|f eng d 020 $a 1523525703 020 $a 9781523525706 040 $a StDuBDS $b eng $c StDuBDS $e rda $d BTCAT $d SILO 100 1 $a Baptiste, Tracey, $e author. 245 10 $a African Icons : $b Ten People Who Shaped History / $c Tracey Baptiste. 246 31 $a African Icons : $b 10 People Who Shaped History 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b Algonquin Young Readers, $c 2024. 300 $a 160 pages : $b full-color illustrations ; $c 23 cm 366 $b 20240102 $c Awaiting stock 520 8 $a "InAfrican Icons,Baptiste engages in the hard work of unveiling the myths about the African continent to young readers . . . This is a great beginner's guide to pre-colonial Africa." -Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author ofStamped from the BeginningandHow to Be an Antiracist Meet ten real-life kings, queens, inventors, scholars, and visionaries who lived in Africa thousands of years ago and changed the world. Black history is a rich and thrilling collection of stories that begins thousands of years ago with the many cultures and people of the African continent. Through portraits of ten heroic figures, bestselling 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. Menes:Creator of Dynasties Merneith:AQueen Erased Imhotep:From Peasant to God Aesop:The Wisest Man in the Ancient World Hannibal Barca:Unparalleled Military Strategist Terence:North African Playwright Amanirenas:Warrior, Diplomat, Queen Tin Hinan:Founding a City on the Dunes Mansa Musa:The Richest Man of All Time Queen Idia:Kingmaker Illustrator Hillary D. Wilson's brilliant portraits accompany each profile, along with vivid, information-filled landscapes, maps, and graphics for readers to pore over and return to again and again.Both an empowering and energetic read and an essential correction to Eurocentric tellings of history, African Icons will enthrall readers of all ages. 650 7 $a JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Africa $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / Africa $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a History & the past $2 thema 650 7 $a People & places $2 thema 650 7 $a Africa $2 thema 650 7 $a Ancient World $2 thema 650 7 $a Children's and Teenage: History and Warfare $2 ukslc 650 4 $a History $v World (General) 650 4 $a Social Life and Customs 650 4 $a Biography $v Collective 650 1 $a Africa $v Juvenile literature $v Juvenile literature 650 1 $a History $v Juvenile literature $v Juvenile literature 941 $a 1 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409045323.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9F1170AACA3D11EEB6B0F94039ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search