After carrying a bowl of milk on her head across dunes and the River Niger, and even up a mountain, without spilling a drop despite many distractions, Penda gets a surprise when she arrives at the grasslands to give her father his lunch.

Discusses both male and female African elephants, their physical characteristics, how they are threatened and how we are protecting them.

Learn all about living in South Africa.

Zolani, who lives in a rural black homeland in South Africa, goes with his mother to visit his Grandma Zindzi.

Two girls set out bravely in search of a lion, going through long grass, a swamp, and a cave before they find what they're looking for.

Explains some traditions and customs of 26 African tribes beginning with letters from A to Z.

Grace is invited for a visit with her father and his new family in Africa.

It is summer vacation and Jamela is bored, until her Aunt Beauty asks her to come and help her get her hair salon ready for a special client, who turns out to be "Afro-Idols" contestant Miss Bambi Chaka Chaka.

An inspiring picture-book biography of iconic singer and activist Miriam Makeba by National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine. Miriam Makeba, a Grammy Award–winning South African singer, rose to fame in the hearts of her people at the pinnacle of apartheid-a brutal system of segregation similar to American Jim Crow laws. Mama Africa, as they called her, raised her voice to help combat these injustices at jazz clubs in Johannesburg; in exile, at...

A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.