The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa
For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundreds of years of ignorance, prejudice, and mythology, award-winnnig authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack reveal the glory of these forgotten empires while inviting us to share in the inspiring process of historical recovery that is taking place today.

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The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa
For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundreds of years of ignorance, prejudice, and mythology, award-winnnig authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack reveal the glory of these forgotten empires while inviting us to share in the inspiring process of historical recovery that is taking place today.

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The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa

The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa

The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa

The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa

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For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundreds of years of ignorance, prejudice, and mythology, award-winnnig authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack reveal the glory of these forgotten empires while inviting us to share in the inspiring process of historical recovery that is taking place today.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780805042597
Publisher: Square Fish
Publication date: 10/15/1995
Edition description: REV
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 322,892
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.45(d)
Age Range: 10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Patricia McKissack (1944-2017) was a children's author who published more than 100 books of fiction and nonfiction, with a particular interest in the African American experience. She received a Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement as well as three individual Coretta Scott King Awards for A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter, The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, and Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters (all written with her husband, Fredrick McKissack).

Fredrick McKissack (1939-2013) was a children's author best known for his collaborations with his wife, Patricia McKissack. Three of their books won Coretta Scott King Awards: A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter, The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, and Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters.

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