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“A lovely book about Africa that gets the issue of
its enormous diversity right.”
—Barbara Brown, Director, Africa in our Schools and
Community Program, African Studies Center, Boston University

“A book every school must have as we emerge
into the global village. Gives good insights into
Africa’s many cultures, with a balance of the
contemporary and traditional that is the way of
life now.”
—Oscar Mokeme, Director, Museum of African Tribal Art,
Portland, Maine
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Enter into the daily life of children in the many
countries of modern Africa. Countering stereotypes, AFRiCA is Not A Country
Africa Is Not a Country celebrates the extraordinary
diversity of this vibrant continent as experienced by
children at home, at school, at work, and at play.

Margy Burns Knight and Anne Sibley O’Brien were the
1997 recipients of the National Education Association’s
Author-Illustrator Human and Civil Rights Award.
Since 1992, they have created Talking Walls, Who
Belongs Here? An American Story, Welcoming Babies and
Talking Walls: The Stories Continue, all edited by Mark
Melnicove. He received the PEN New England
Discovery Award for 2000 in nonfiction. 2nd Edition

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