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At lunchtime Daddy and Jesse play their favorite game: a question and answer game about people who live in Africa and the ways in which they are connected to Jesse.

As he listens to Old Father's stories each day, a little boy asks if his friend has ever been young, but only after he has grown old himself, does he understand Old Father's answer.

An African father tells his son about the disaster that followed the night a baby with smallpox was abandoned in his family's house.

The author, a member of the Igbo tribe in Nigeria, presents text and her own photographs of twenty-six things, from A to Z, representative of all African peoples.

An African-American child's dreams are filled with the images of the people and places of Africa.

An African boy carrying home precious water for his family shares it with a succession of animals and eventually has his kindness repaid in an unexpected way.

Tells the story of how Africa's thorny acacia came to be so prickly, and what prevents giraffes from wiping the bushes out entirely.

In this folklore-like original tale, the starving creatures of the African savannah send the swiftest animal, then the strongest, and finally the most powerful to the mountain to learn the name of the great magic tree, but it is the lowly turtle who finally succeeds.

Baboons are stealing young Yusuf's palm sap which he sells at the market.

Emeka goes to visit his grandmother and wishes to take her a present.

An illustrated poem tells how a wildebeest, a waterbuck, a giraffe, and a zebra all come to a watering hole on the African plains, unaware that a lion is on the prowl.

Describes many things that originally came from Africa, including music, dance, foods, animals, fashion, and art.

A Masai father in Africa answers his son's questions, reaffirming his unconditional love for the boy.

On the African game preserve where his father works, Akimbo devises a dangerous plan to capture a ring of elephant poachers.

When Akimbo and his park ranger father unintentionally capture a lion cub near an African game park, Akimbo wants to keep the cub.