African Beginnings
Contributors: Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
Publisher: Amistad
Published: December 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780061136122
Subjects: People & Places - Africa; History - Africa; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction; Children: Grades 2-3; Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Ancient; History - Ancient; Africa; History; Juvenile literature
First sentence: AFRICAN CIVILIZATION DATES BACK TO A TIME (BETWEEN TWELVE THOUSAND AND SEVEN thousand years ago) when the region called the Sahara-now a vast desert-was green and fertile.