The resources are endless!

Children’s Books

• Africa is Not a Country by Margy Burns Knight and Mark Melnicove
• Ashraf of Africa by Ingrid Mennen and Niki Daly
• Big Boy by Tololwa Mollel (Tanzania)
• A Child's Day in a South African City by Gisele Wulfsohn (South Africa)
• The Day of Ahmed's Secret by Florence Parry Heide & Judith Heide Gilliland (Egypt) 
• Grandfather’s Work: A Traditional Healer in Nigeria by Ifeoma Onyefulu (Nigeria)
• Here Comes our Bride by Ifeoma Onyefulu
• I Lost My Tooth in Africa by Penda Diakite (Mali, West Africa)
• Ikenna goes to Nigeria by Ifeoma Onyefulu (Nigeria)
• My Father’s Shop by Satomi Ichikawa (Morocco)
• My Rows and Piles of Coins by Tololwa Mollel (Tanzania)
• On My Way to School by AfricAid & Losinoni Primary School, Illustrated  by Penny Weber (Tanzania)
• What’s Cooking, Jamela? by Niki Daly

 Some Award-winning African children’s book authors include:
        Tololwa Mollel (Tanzania)
        Ifeoma Onyefulu (Nigeria)
        Elinor Sisulu (South Africa)

 


Teacher Resources

Aritcles/Books

• Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind by Curtis Keim, 1999
• Images of Africa: stereotypes & realities / edited by Daniel M. Mengara
• “I didn't know there were cities in Africa!” by Randolph & DeMulder
  • Teaching Tolerance, No. 34, Fall 2008
  •  http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-34-fall-2008/i-didnt-know-there-were-cities-africa

 

Online Resources

• African Access Review
  • Expansive review of children’s books and materials on Africa
    http://www.africaaccessreview.org/aar/index.html
    
• Africa Focus: The Sights and Sounds of Africa
            http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/AfricaFocus/
  
• African Storyteller on Wheels (branch of UW-Madison African Studies Program)
  • Provides guest speakers to local elementary school
    http://africa.wisc.edu/asw/
    
• African Studies Program at UW-Madison
            http://africa.wisc.edu/
  
• CCBC
    o       Extensive list of fiction, non-fiction, and picture books from all over the world
                http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=280
  
• Exploring Africa! Curriculum
  • http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu//teachers/curriculum/activities.php

 


Videos

• Africa in stereotype vs. Africa in context
  • Video was made by a teenage boy named Abdoulaye Bah from Guinea, West Africa, who is now living in the United States comparing the stereotypes people in his life believe about Africa and his actual experiences as a West African
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8IjYdURNeo
    
• The Danger of a Single Story
  • Chimamanda Adichie, famous Nigerian children’s author, speaks at the TED conference about the importance of providing children with culturally relevant literature
  • http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html