Light a Candle / Tumaini pasipo na Tumaini

Light a Candle / Tumaini pasipo na Tumaini

Light a Candle / Tumaini pasipo na Tumaini

Light a Candle / Tumaini pasipo na Tumaini

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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 as one country, the United Republic of Tanzania.

This bilingual book includes full text in both English and Swahili.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781459817005
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Publication date: 10/01/2019
Edition description: Bilingual Edition, English and Swahili
Pages: 32
Sales rank: 1,104,653
Product dimensions: 8.75(w) x 10.75(h) x 0.38(d)
Language: Swahili
Lexile: 560L (what's this?)
Age Range: 6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Godfrey Nkongolo is a doctoral student in political science with extensive experience working in international and community development in Tanzania. One of his passions both within his studies and beyond is to promote African thought and to show the world that Africa has a message of hope even though the story of Africa that is most widely known is one of despair. He now lives in Toronto with his family.


Eric Walters is a Member of the Order of Canada and the author of over 125 books that have collectively won more than 100 awards including the Governor General’s Literary Award for The King of Jam Sandwiches. A former teacher, Eric began writing as a way to get his fifth-grade students interested in reading and writing. Eric is a tireless presenter, speaking to over 100,000 students per year in schools across the country. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.


Eva Campbell was born in Ghana and spent her childhood in Barbados and Jamaica. She studied painting at the College of Art in Ghana (BA) and the University of Victoria (MFA). Eva has had numerous art exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Ghana, Barbados, and Britain. She is the visual arts teacher at Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia.

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