<p>This is an Award Winning book that won the Children's Africana Book Award as Best Children's Book for 2014. It isabout a little girl, Savita, who travels back home to Kenya, East Africa after visiting relatives in her ancestral land of India. It provides a different perspective about culture and life in Africa through the eyes of Savita, her family and her African friend, Njeri. Based on the author's personal experiences, this story will keep young readers engaged as they follow Savita's journey in the dhow with a "bundle of secrets" from India that finally get revealed in her home in Kenya. The book is recommended for multicultural education in any classroom or home in Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. These places are becoming increasingly diverse due to migration. The book has a list of questions and activities for teachers to use with students to raise awareness and appreciation about their own and adopted cultures.</p>

Bundle of Secrets: Savita Returns Home (Best Children's Book 2014 - Africana Children's Book Award)

Children's Books

Mubina Hassanali Kirmani

Growing Up & Facts of Life

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A further new title in this series on East African oral literature, considering East African-Indian genres of oral literature and cultures, which developed as people from India/Asia migrated to East Africa. The authors discuss how these literatures have been a source of creativity and renewal; and how they give expression to the values, perceptions and aspirations of cultures. The book is organised into sections on the socio-cultural background and historical origins of the literatures; patterns of migration and settlement in East Africa; styles in Indian literature as preserved in East Africa, common symbols, images and figures of speech; the role of the artist in literary production; and performance of oral literature. The authors further provide and discuss narratives from many genres: e.g. myths, legends, animal tales, moral stories; tales of wisdom and wit; riddles, proverbs and songs. Many passages appear in the original languages, transcribed from primary sources - in particular Gujerati; also Sindhi, Punjabi, Cutchi, Hindi, Kondani - as well as in English translation.

Oral Literature of the Asians in East Africa

Literature & Fiction

Sanaullah Kirmani

History & Criticism

East African Educ. Publ.

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