Raouf Mama

Fortune's Favored Child

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Raouf Mama is widely beloved by children and adults alike for his books and especially for his African and multicultural storytelling, which incorporates poetry, song, music, and dance. In Fortune's Favored Child>/em, Mama tells his own story, beginning in the West African country of Benin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780810129733
• ISBN-10: 0810129736
• Artikelnr.: 39092451

Autorenporträt

RAOUF MAMA is a Distinguished Professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University. His previous books are Why Monkeys Live in Trees and Other Stories from Benin (Curbstone, 2006), winner of the 2008 National Multicultural Children's Publication Award; The Barefoot Book of Tropical Tales (2000); Pearls of Wisdom (2001, with Mary Romney); and Why Goats Smell Bad (1998). Mama regularly travels to various parts of the world to work with teachers, education professionals, and children, using storytelling as a multicultural teaching and motivational tool. He has worked in partnership with UNICEF and the School of African Heritage in promoting education and cultural awareness through storytelling.