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Dedicated to:
la famille Gnidehoue (MBK);
Denise and Damian (MM);
Meikie Jenness and family (ASO).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Text copyright © 2023 by Margy Burns Knight, Mark Melnicove, and
Anne Sibley O’Brien
With deep appreciation to all those who shared their Illustrations copyright © 2023 by Anne Sibley O’Brien
expertise and stories of African childhoods:
All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may
Naa Anorkor Abbey-Baurecht, Simeon Alloding, Mohamed be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by
and Radia Gheraissa, Ahmed Hassan, Sylvanus Jackson, any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—
Meikie Jenness, Nancy Kamaliza, E’nkul Kanakan, without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except
Margaret Lado, Metycaine Mntuyedwa and family, Oscar for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review.
Mokeme, Penjami Mphepo, Apollinaire Munyaneza, Thandi
Nkosi, Brigitte Nyada and family, Mutima Peter, Efrem Millbrook Press™
Weldemichael, Kokou Yetongnon, Catherine Yomoah, and An imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
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To Edgard Gnidehoue for his guidance, to Daria Burns for her
research assistance, and to Barbara Brown for her knowledge. For reading levels and more information, look up this title at
www.lernerbooks.com.
And to all those who helped us along the way: The African
Studies Center at Boston University (Africa@bu.edu), Main body text set in Perpetua Std. Typeface provided by Monotype Typography.
Charlotte Agell, Dale Barrett, Bates College, Mara Burns,
Toni Buzzeo, Jo Coyne, Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, Mirjam
de Bruijn, DeWolfe Family, Mansour El-Alwi, Paul Fredrick, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Val Hart, Jay Hoffman, Emilie Knight, Steve Knight, Jane
Kurtz, Agnes Leslie, Ann Lynch, Marguerite MacDonald, Names: Knight, Margy Burns, author. | Melnicove, Mark, author. | O’Brien,
Anne Sibley, illustrator.
the McPhedran Family, Cathy Murray, Marcia Nash, Katie Title: Africa is not a country / Margy Burns Knight, Mark Melnicove ;
Norton, Robert O’Brien, Yunhee O’Brien, Melissa Orth, illustrated by Anne Sibley O’Brien.
Pam Osborn, George Packer, the Peace Corps, Jim Perkins, Description: 2nd edition. | Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2022] | Audience:
Portland Public Library and Peaks Island Branch, the Ages 8–12 | Audience: Grades 4–6 | Summary: “Enter into the daily
Reinsboroughs, John and Jean Sibley, Norman R. Sibley, Peg lives of children in the many countries of modern Africa. Countering
Snyder, Carol Stahl, Pat Stanton, Elizabeth Stover, Rachel stereotypes, this book celebrates the extraordinary diversity of this vibrant
Talbot-Ross, UM-Orono, Grace Valenzuela, Gretchen Walsh, continent. With selected updates to the text, statistics, and illustrations”
Dianne Webb, Cathy Wimette, Winthrop Grade School, and —Provided by publisher.
Winthrop High School French IV class. Identifiers: LCCN 2021052296 | ISBN 9781728460383 (library binding) |
ISBN 9781728460390 (paperback) | ISBN 9781728462653 (ebook pdf)
Although every effort has been made to make this book Subjects: LCSH: Africa—Juvenile literature. | Africa—Social life and
as accurate as possible, some facts are in dispute, even by customs—Juvenile literature.
experts. The diversity, complexity, and changing nature Classification: LCC DT22 .K57 2022 | DDC 960—dc23/eng/20211106
of the African continent means that new information is
always arising. LC record available att https://lccn.loc.gov/2021052296
Manufactured in the United States of America
1-51506-50378-1/27/2022