An extraordinarily well-written, compassionate and compelling novel about what to do when something you've always feared seems to be becoming all too real.

Toda su vida, Perro Viejo ha sido esclavo en la plantación de azúcar de su amo. Su cuerpo está viejo y cansado, su mente se pierde a menudo en recuerdos. Escrito por una descendiente de esclavos, Perro Viejo es un duro y conmovedor retrato de la inhumanidad de la esclavitud.

Co-authored by the world's leading experts on modern slavery, this book in the Groundwork Guides series examines examples of slavery around the world today, and demonstrates how readers can get involved in the global anti-slavery movement.

This book in the Groundworks Guides series shows that today a real possibility for positive change in Africa now exists, but the citizens of rich countries must be aware of the false premises on which their own leaders deal with the continent.

In this traditional Ethiopian tale, a slave obtains his freedom.

Meja Mwangi's novel captures a child's-eye view of village life in Kenya in the late 1950s -- a time of innocence, wild beauty, and the growing violence that would change the entire structure of colonial Africa.

A well-known Bantu tale brought to dramatic life by extraordinary pictures depicting Africa in an uncliched way.

Drawing on the rich vein of the African Ananse tradition, Ghanaian author Adwoa Badoe and Malian illustrator Baba Wague Diakite bring us a marvelously lively, witty and entertaining collection of ten tales about this spider trickster.

Elephant betrays his friend, the goodhearted Rat, and lives to regret it.