African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History

This captivating book, "African Icons," takes readers on an exhilarating journey through time to meet ten real-life kings, queens, inventors, scholars, and visionaries who shaped the course of history in pre-colonial Africa.

With vivid portraits and informative landscapes, maps, and graphics, this book provides an essential correction to Eurocentric tellings of history and celebrates Black excellence.

Meet Menes, creator of dynasties; Merneith, a queen erased from history; Imhotep, who went from peasant to god; Aesop, the wisest man in the ancient world; Hannibal Barca, an unparalleled military strategist; Terence, a North African playwright; Amanirenas, a warrior, diplomat, and queen; Tin Hinan, founder of a city on the dunes; and Mansa Musa, the richest man of all time.

This book is an empowering, energetic journey through time that will enthrall readers of all ages.