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African Icons
African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History | Tracey Baptiste
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In a richly designed work with maps, portraits, and graphics throughout, the award-winning author of the Jumbies series shows readers this underrepresented side of Black history and Black excellence. Every year, American schoolchildren celebrate Black History Month. They study almost exclusively American stories, which are not only rooted in struggle over enslavement or oppression, but also take in only four hundred years of a rich and thrilling history that goes back many millennia across the African continent. Through portraits of ten historical figures--from Menes, the first ruler to be called Pharaoh, to Queen Idia, a sixteenth-century power broker, visionary, and diplomat--African Icons takes readers on a journey across Africa to meet some of the great leaders and thinkers whose ideas built a continent and shaped our world.
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African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History | Tracey Baptiste
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So good. Incredibly informative and has definitely inspired me to try to learn more.

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African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History | Tracey Baptiste
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We have arrived at the fall of Timbuktu and I am utterly devastated by the loss. I wish I would have learned bout this years ago. I feel like I may go down a rabbit hole…. 😭😭😭😭

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African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History | Tracey Baptiste
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I am greatly enjoying this. The woman narrating this book has a deeply relaxing voice… ahhhhhh

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African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History | Tracey Baptiste
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In conclusion, everyone should be reading more about #africa because wow, I feel like the anti-africa/black agenda has been very well done. I learned so much about #humanhistory here and the more I learn (via multiple resources), the more I realize that we have been robbed of an important part of our #history by colonizer countries. Engaging and eye opening, esp since idk much #africanhistory

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African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History | Tracey Baptiste
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This is another Educator #ALC choice from Libro.fm that I think might be better in print because of the illustrations. However, even without those, it is a wonderful collection of short biographies of influential and interesting Africans. I recognized some of the names but learned something new about all of the people described.

#Audiobook duration: 3 hours 39 minutes

#Librofm #nonfiction #MiddleGrade #ReadTheWorld #ReadingTheWorld

Daisey Since I have a three day weekend, I figured I might as well keep track of time for #20in4 this weekend as well. Along with my earlier reading and listening today, finishing this brought me to just over 5 hours for today. 2y
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