TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baptiste,Tracey
AU  - Wilson,Hillary D.
TI  - African icons: ten people who shaped history 
SN  - 9781616209001
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Chapel Hill, North Carolina
PB  - Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapeel Hill
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Africa
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-156) and index; Introduction: When Africa Fueled the World -- The Sahara Yawns:  Menes: Creator of Dynasties -- Merneith: A Queen Erased -- The Dawn of Egypt: Imhotep: From Peasant to God -- Metal Bonds -- Nature as Character: Aesop: The Wisest Man in the Ancient World -- Across the Waves: Hannibal Barca: Unparalleled Military Strategist -- Terence: North African Playwright -- Amanirenas: Warrior, Diplomat, Queen -- Where Few Dared to Tread: Tin Hinan: Founding a City on the Dunes -- Across the Golden Sand: Mansa Musa: The Richest Man of All Time -- The Catalan Atlas --The Power of the Griot -- Libraries in the Sand -- The Winds Change: Queen Idia: Kingmaker -- Culture Lost -- Author's note -- Source notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Designer's Note; Ages 9-12; Algonquin Young Readers; Grades 4-6; Algonquin Young Readers
N2  - "Full-color portraits illustrate the stories of ten people--rulers, educators, inventors, scholars, and explorers--who helped shape the African continent and the world from ancient times through the tumultuous sixteenth century"--
ER  -