African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History

Author: Baptiste, Tracey

Age Range: 10 - 14

Grade Level: 4 - 9

Hardcover: 176 pages

Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers

Black history began long ago with the many cultures and people of the African continent.

Through portraits of ten heroic figures, author Tracey Baptiste takes readers on a journey across Africa to meet some of the great leaders and thinkers whose vision built a continent and shaped the world.

Illustrator Hillary D. Wilson’s brilliant portraits accompany each profile, along with vivid, information-filled landscapes, maps, and graphics for readers to pore over and return to again and again.