Africa Access Review

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• Learn more about Africa, book reviews, children's books, children's literature, and stories.

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A free online bibliographic and review database that contains reviews and annotations of children’s materials on Africa. Reviewers are university professors, librarians, and teachers who have lived in Africa and have graduate degrees in African Studies. Africa Access Review is a collective response to the critical need for authoritative information about children’s materials on Africa. Studies have repeatedly shown that U.S. libraries that serve children often contain biased and stereotypical materials on Africa. These reviews, avilable in a searchable database, help libraries build accurate, balanced collections on Africa and teachers to teach Africa with the most credible resources avilable. The Research page provides resource lists by theme like the Songhay Empire, Mali Empire, or Senegalese Glass Paintings. Other units focus on a children’s book title, like Fatuma’s New Cloth and provide recommended titles for setting the context of the story. Africana Book Buddies, a reading incentive program to encourage students to read more about Africa, is another program of interest from Access Africa.