Kwanzaa is a seven-day festival that begins on December 26th and is celebrated until the first of January each year. It celebrates African American culture as w

Swahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Afri

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known com

African American folklore dates back 240 years and has had a significant impact on American culture from the slavery period to the modern day. This encyclopedia