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This course explores the topics of home and exile in three books that feature Africa. Each of the novels in this course is a unique coming-of-age story.

Coursebook containing lessons and assignments for World Literature: Africa and Beyond

This Oak Meadow teacher edition is designed for teachers and parents who are supporting independent learners taking the high school course, World Literature: Africa and Beyond.

 A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of women’s rights.

An epic novel about a boy on the verge of manhood, his experiences with the wonder and mystery of a still-primitive land, and his secret friendship with the Bushman whose life he saves

More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands.