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Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Little Jamari loves the sound of the great village drum and often sits at drummer Baba's feet, who explains that the drum is the keeper of the peace. Years later, Jamari agrees to take over the beating of the drum. But little by little, he forgets his promise.
2) Rebel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Koji's village is like many others. They are poor, but everyone is doing okay. The children go to school. Study hard. Play soccer. Dream big. But boyhood ends quickly. Rebel forces enter the village. Boys are forced to line up. March. Train. Carry guns. Then kill."--Back cover.
Author
Series
The no. 1 car spotter volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
No. 1 is always full of good ideas. He figures out what to do when a leopard is bothering the goats and when Mama Coca-Cola has problems with her house. But what will it take to make the fabulous Firebird stop in the village?
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the...
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