The story of an African prince who travels to the land of the rising sun where the widowed queen was looking for a new husband. The prince has to face three impossible tests to win his royal bride.This is a simple, very readable and enjoyable story from Africa's most celebrated storyteller, Kama Sywor Kamanda, beautifully illustrated by the Japanese artist, Izumi Ishikawa.

Poetry is one of the major forms of literary expression in both Africa and the Arab World and this anthology endeavours to provide the reader with a glimpse of the most representative voices of the poetic movements, and generations, in the French-speaking countries of these two regions, at the same time as doing away with the divisions and distinctions between the countries of Africa. The poets anthologized here - from North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa and the Arab World - have long wished to escape from artificial pigeon-holing and rather to be associated with common threads. The past half-century has confirmed their work as poetry of great literary quality, full of a unique vitality and presence, and this anthology enables an English-speaking readership to discover and savour these distinctive voices

Tales of Kamanda Vol. 1 by Kama Sywor Kamanda; 41 enchanting tales by Africa's greatest story teller.Kama Sywor Kamanda has produced a dozen anthologies of poetry, several hundred stories, four novels and three plays. The imagery in his stories comes from African traditions but mixes the fantastic and the real, conjuring up memorable pictures of sunlight, dark forests, beautiful princess and fearful monsters. Born in the Congo, he published his first collection of stories in 1967 when he was 15. He helped create the Union of Congolese Writers but fled Mobutu's Congo in 1977. He was the founding president of the African Association of Writers of which Leopold Sedar Senghor was the honorary president.His works have been translated into many languages and he has earned many prizes, including the Black Africa Grand Prize for Literature, the Paul Verlaine Prize and the Theophile Gautier prize from the Academie francaise. In 2005, the International Council for Francophone Studies conferred upon him the prestigious Maurice-Cagnon Certificate of Honour, for his unique contribution to world literature in French.B OOKS OF AFRICA is also publishing children's editions of two of his stories, "Amana, the child who was a god" and "Prince Muntu". Published in collaboration with Editions DAGAN, Paris

This is one of the best-loved stories by Africa's most celebrated storyteller, Kama Sywor Kamanda, lavishly illustrated by the Japanese artist Izumi IshikawaIn Kerma, a country in ancient Nubia near the source of the river Nile, a child who was a god was born. His name was Amana. His grandfather looked after him as his parents had been carried away by spirits. One day, the king of Meroe, who had no sons, decided to adopt him. His grandfather, knowing that his future lay elsewhere, allowed him to go to where his destiny called him.The oracles had predicted that Amana would be the first king of a reunited Egypt. Will the young prince from Nubia overcome the unimaginable challenges on the way and fulfil his destiny?