Light a Candle
By Godfrey Nkongolo, Eric Walters, Eva Campbell (Illustrator)
A boy defies his father to climb Kilimanjaro and unite a nation.
In the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, a young boy defies his chief father to fulfill a historic mission. Tasked by Julius Nyerere, he must light a candle atop the mountain to symbolize the unification of Tanganyika and Zanzibar into Tanzania. As he ascends, the boy faces not only the mountain's challenges but also the weight of his father's disapproval. Will he succeed in his quest to bring unity to his country, or will the journey prove too perilous? Discover the courage and determination needed to bridge a nation's past and future.
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 and his father, the chief of their tribe. The boy 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.
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 32
- Reading age
- 6–8
- Audience
- Picture
- Lexile
- 560L
Book details
- ATOS
- ~3.7
- F&P level
- ~N
- Published
- October 1, 2019
- Publisher
- Orca Book Publishers
- Language
- Swahili
- Type
- Picture Book
- ISBN
- 9781459817005
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