woke up no light: poems

woke up no light: poemsA poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California woke up no light is a Black girls saunter turned to a womans defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and ready to devour. A quest for home in a world that knows only wasteland and wanting. Moving in sections from girlhood to neighborhood to falsehood to, finally,

and military interaction with the Portuguese

In August 1955

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 158536956X

much-anticipated picture book by presidential inaugural poet and activist Amanda Gorman

Ghana's drive for independence under Kwame Nkrumah

racial nationalists in the New World sought repatriation to Northeast Africa on cultural

The book also analyzes entrepreneurship theories as an aspect of the history of economic thought and surveys African entrepreneurship in the context of scholarly research traditions

He also leads a spiritual group

Suyi Davies Okungbowa's sweeping epic of forgotten magic and violent conquests continues in this richly drawn fantasy inspired by the pre-colonial empires of West Africa

the Psalms

At its heart are Powell's "Thirteen Rules"—notes he gathered over the years and that now form the basis of his leadership presentations given throughout the world

Miriam's Song