Queens of Africa
This is a series of 6 books each telling the story of a different
ancient Queen of Africa through three young girls Wuraola, Azeezah
and Nneka (each representing the three main tribes of Nigeria).
Girls aged 3-11yrs can enjoy the stories and buy the dolls. You can
find out more about them on the website www.queensofafrica.com and
the books are available on Amazon.
They will be printed in hardback for the Nigerian market and paperback for the rest of the world.
I wrote these stories as an Elance project about 3 years ago when I was just starting out as a writer and only managed to get credit for them (along with the illustrator - LittlePinkPebble from Singapore) due to the client being rather tardy with the payments. It was originally a ghost written project.
The research for each story was fascinating and it was quite a challenge to rewrite the rather bloodthirsty and let's face it, sexual promiscuity of these powerful Queens in such a way as to inspire young girls of today!
The concept of the stories and of the Queens of Africa project is to create awareness of the history of Africa and it's strong women to encourage girls of today to be educated and aspire to become the leaders of tomorrow.
To this end a second series of books is planned based on NLP (my area of expertise) and the first of these is already out 'Queens of Africa learn confidence'.
All these books are to be launched on Children's Day in Nigeria on May 27th
They will be printed in hardback for the Nigerian market and paperback for the rest of the world.
I wrote these stories as an Elance project about 3 years ago when I was just starting out as a writer and only managed to get credit for them (along with the illustrator - LittlePinkPebble from Singapore) due to the client being rather tardy with the payments. It was originally a ghost written project.
The research for each story was fascinating and it was quite a challenge to rewrite the rather bloodthirsty and let's face it, sexual promiscuity of these powerful Queens in such a way as to inspire young girls of today!
The concept of the stories and of the Queens of Africa project is to create awareness of the history of Africa and it's strong women to encourage girls of today to be educated and aspire to become the leaders of tomorrow.
To this end a second series of books is planned based on NLP (my area of expertise) and the first of these is already out 'Queens of Africa learn confidence'.
All these books are to be launched on Children's Day in Nigeria on May 27th
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Using the African Queens is a good way to instil confidence and self awareness in children. Lots of luck with the launch on Children's Day.
Lots of luck with your launch.
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