Light A Candle/Tumaini Pasipo Na Tumaini [Swahili]

by Eric Walters and Godfrey Nkongolo

Book Overview

Co-written by Eric Walters and Godfrey Nkongolo, Light a Candle weaves non-fiction with fiction to tell the story of a boy coming of age in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

The son of the village's chief climbs the mountain against his father's wishes to fulfill a request of the country's first leader, Julius Nyerere, to light a candle on the top of the mountain and unify the mainland of Tanganyika and the islands of Zanzibar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Swahili
• ISBN: 1459817001
• ISBN13: 9781459817005
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.9" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 6 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3