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Fiction > Picture > African Settings
Fiction > Picture > African Settings/Culture
Robyn Abdusamad
Zaynab’s Enchanted Scarf
Maya Angelou
My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me
Kofi and His Magic
Atinuke
Catch that Chicken
Baby Goes to Market
Double Trouble for Anna Hibiscus!
Splash
Anna Hibiscus Song
Adwoa Badoe
The Runaway Bicycle
Champion Runner
Robin Bernard
Juma and the Honey-Guide: An African Story
James Berry
Don’t Leave an Elephant to Go and Chase a Bird
Joel Eboueme Bognomo
Madoulina
JaNay Brown-Wood
Imani’s Moon
Ashley Bryan
Beautiful Blackbird
The Night Has Ears: African Proverbs
Ashley Bryan’s African Tales, Uh-Huh
The Story of Lightning and Thunder
Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African Folktales
Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Poems
Eboni Bynum & Roland Jackson
Jamari’s Drum
Deborah M. Newton Chocolate
Imani in the Belly
Talk, Talk: An Ashanti Legend
Evelyn Coleman
To Be a Drum
Trish Cooke
How Anansi Got His Stories
No Dinner for Anansi
Pat Cummings
Ananse and the Lizard: A West African Tale
Ruby Dee
Two Ways To Count To Ten
Tower to Heaven
Baba Wagué Diakité
A Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale
The Hatseller and the Monkeys
The Magic Gourd
Mee-An and the Magic Serpent
Penda Diakité
Tooth In Africa
Veronica Freeman Ellis
Land of the Four Winds: Kpa Nieh Kpau
Karen English
Red Shoes
Sade Fadipe
An African ABC
Dwayne Ferguson
The Amazing Adventures of Abiola
Captain Africa: The Battle for Egyptica
Bernette Ford
The Hunter Who Was King and Other African Tales
Lorenz B. Graham
Song of the Boat
Eloise Greenfield
Africa Dream
Frederic Guirma
In the Rainfield Who Is the Greatest?
Princes of the Full Moon
Rosa Guy
Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal
Virginia Hamilton
Wee Winnie Witch’s Skinny: An Original African American Scare Tale
Dakari Hru
Joshua’s Masai Mask
The Magic Moonberry Jump Ropes
Nansubuga Nagaddya Isdahl
Sing to the Moon
Sleep Well, Siba and Saba
Wanuri Kahiu
The Wooden Camel
Mary Dixon Lake
Royal Drum: An Ashanti Tale
Julius Lester
Shining
The Old African
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Janice Liddell
Imani and the Flying Africans
Patricia McKissack
Never Forgotten
Robert McKissack
Itching And Twitching
Angela Shelf Medearis
Too Much Talk: A West African Folktale
Tololwa M. Mollel
My Rows and Piles of Coins
The Princess Who Lost Her Hair: An Akamba Legend
Subira Subira
Orphan Boy
Kele’s Secret
Big Boy
Marilyn Nelson
Ostrich and Lark
Pierre Yves Njeng
Vacation in the Village: A Story from West Africa
Nnedi Okorafor
Chicken in the Kitchen
Isaac Olaleye
Bikes For Rent
Lake of the Big Snake
Bitter Bananas
Ifeoma Onyefulu
Chidi Only Likes Blue: An African Book of Colors
A Is for Africa
Tamara Pizzoli
The Ghanaian Goldilocks
F is for Fufu: An Alphabet Book Based on The Ghanaian Goldilocks
Kalif Price
Maasai Boy: Heart of a Warrior
Leontyne Price
AIDA
Dylan Pritchett
The First Music
Adjai Robinson
Three African Tales
Singing Tales of Africa
Kasho and the Twin Flutes
Femi and Old Granddaddie
Dorothy W. Robinson
The Legend of Africania
Melodye Benson Rosales
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Twas the Night B’Fore Christmas: An African-American Version
Segilola Salami
Yetunde: An Ode to my Mother
Yetunde: The Life and Times of a Yoruba Girl in London
Elinor Batezat Sisulu
The Day Gogo Went to Vote: South Africa, 1994
John Steptoe
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Efua Sutherland (Theodora Morgue)
The Voice in the Forest
Playtime in Africa
Veronique Tadjo
If I Were a King, If I Were a Queen
Mamy Wata and the Monster
Grandma Nana
Lord of the Dance: An African Retelling
R. Jay Turner
Rhymz for the NurSoulry
Donna L. Washington
A Pride of African Tales
Mary Williams
Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan
Sheron Williams
And in the Beginning…
Adrienne Yabouza
The Magic Doll: A Children’s Book Inspired by African Art
Elizabeth Zunon
Grandpa Cacao: A Tale of Chocolate, from Farm to Family