Count on your fingers African style
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Title
Count on your fingers African style
Description
This beautifully illustrated four color picture book takes children through the markets, showing traditional finger counting of various African people - the Maasai, the Kamba, and the Taita in Kenya, the Zulu of South Africa, and the Mende of Sierra Leone. This book examines the role that numbers play in creating a common language across cultural boundaries.
Author
Zaslavsky, Claudia
Publisher
Black Butterfly Children's Books
Picture Book Entry Item Type Metadata
Illustrator
Mutu, Wangechi
ISBN
0-86316-250-9
Year of Publication
1999
Author of Abstract
Abstract provided by Library of Congress, 1999
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Citation
Zaslavsky, Claudia, “Count on your fingers African style,” Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University, accessed April 7, 2025, https://dlp.lib.miamioh.edu/picturebook/items/show/11279.