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This Book is Making a Big Impression in Dakar!
Read with us! https://youtu.be/BO7-RIDZ4Ho Ditakh, solome, madde, bouye and more are all found in this lovely children's books. The reader gets a chance to learn names of the fruits in The Gambia versus what they are called in Senegal. Names may be different for some, but the delicious taste is the same.
Due to the Coronavirus we could not organize a story hour, but families can enjoy hearing the author Emily Joof read Mangoes and Monkey Bread as two children visiting The Gambia discover and learn to love fruits native to West Africa. Indeed, there is life beyond strawberries!
International Children’s Book Day is a worldwide celebration to promote literacy and inspire reading to and with young children. Our theme is "Love What is Yours" and Mangoes and Monkey Bread is a perfect story.
Due to the Coronavirus we could not organize a story hour, but families can enjoy hearing the author Emily Joof read Mangoes and Monkey Bread as two children visiting The Gambia discover and learn to love fruits native to West Africa. Indeed, there is life beyond strawberries!
International Children’s Book Day is a worldwide celebration to promote literacy and inspire reading to and with young children. Our theme is "Love What is Yours" and Mangoes and Monkey Bread is a perfect story.
Rich history, but who knew? We"re reading - The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal. On April 10, 1734, a fire ripped through Montréal, destroying forty-six buildings, including the famed hospital/convent L'Hôtel Dieu. Marie-Joseph Angélique, the slave woman accused of starting the fire, was tried in court and condemned to death. Only under the pressure of la question extraordinaire—a hideous torture that shattered the bones in her legs—did she confess to arson. Executed by hanging, Angélique entered Canada's history books as a criminal, but her trial
offered the unique chance to tell her life story—one that would otherwise have gone unrecorded and unheard.
Afua Cooper—writer, historian, and poet—brings to life a little-known chapter in Canadian history brilliantly to life with this narrative of a rebellious Portuguese-born Black woman who refused to accept her bondage. In a dramatic retelling of Angélique’s story, Cooper sheds new light on what might have compelled a young woman to commit such a crime. At the same time, she demolishes the myth of Canada as a haven at the end of the Underground Railroad, revealing a damning centuries-old record of legally and culturally endorsed slavery.
This is an important, wide-ranging history focusing on a slave woman and the context of life in colonial Montreal, slavery in Canada and the international Atlanta Slave Trade.
Read more:
- https://ugapress.org/book/9780820329406/the-hanging-of-angelique/
- http://www.bukowskiagency.com/Cooper/Hanging-of-Angelique.htm
- https://mdbrady.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/the-hanging-of-angelique-by-afua-cooper/
offered the unique chance to tell her life story—one that would otherwise have gone unrecorded and unheard.
Afua Cooper—writer, historian, and poet—brings to life a little-known chapter in Canadian history brilliantly to life with this narrative of a rebellious Portuguese-born Black woman who refused to accept her bondage. In a dramatic retelling of Angélique’s story, Cooper sheds new light on what might have compelled a young woman to commit such a crime. At the same time, she demolishes the myth of Canada as a haven at the end of the Underground Railroad, revealing a damning centuries-old record of legally and culturally endorsed slavery.
This is an important, wide-ranging history focusing on a slave woman and the context of life in colonial Montreal, slavery in Canada and the international Atlanta Slave Trade.
Read more:
- https://ugapress.org/book/9780820329406/the-hanging-of-angelique/
- http://www.bukowskiagency.com/Cooper/Hanging-of-Angelique.htm
- https://mdbrady.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/the-hanging-of-angelique-by-afua-cooper/
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October 2019 - https://conta.cc/32jCS4z
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December 2018 - https://conta.cc/2ED80D4
March 2018 - http://conta.cc/2G8KA7o
February 2018 - http://conta.cc/2FFiW0q
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