{"id":268,"date":"2024-03-24T21:27:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T21:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/?p=268"},"modified":"2025-01-31T21:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T21:45:13","slug":"book-review-akua-is-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/2024\/03\/24\/book-review-akua-is-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Akua is Great"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AKUA IS GREAT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Dr. Artika Tyner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Women\u2019s History Month comes to a close, let us remember that the great Black women we celebrate were once little girls with dreams. As the founder of Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute, I heartily appreciate the work Dr. Artika Tyner has done and continues to do to promote literacy. She is a passionate educator and speaker, and as an author, she has published amazing and inspiring fiction and nonfiction books, such as today\u2019s children\u2019s book Akua Is Great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our story opens at bedtime with Akua and her mother reading a special book, whereby Mama asks Akua what makes her great. Akua connects different qualities of greatness with African born women of history such as Yaa Asantewaa, Miriam Makeba, Maria Naita, Queen Nanny, and Francisca Nneka Okeke, to create a powerful acronym.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tyner doesn\u2019t stop there. She states the importance of daily affirmations to empower, encourage, and inspire our children, our kings-and-queens-in-training. She includes a name chart from the Akan people of Ghana. And last but not least, she gives us the history of the powerful sistahs named in the book. Storytelling while teaching simultaneously\u2014love it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akua Is Great is available through Amazon, Barnes &amp; Noble, and the Planting People Growing Justice Press and Bookstore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you, Artika, for bringing us another inspiration and affirmation of who we are as a people, and the ongoing journey set forth by those whose shoulders we stand upon. Keep paying it forward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AKUA IS GREAT By Dr. Artika Tyner As Women\u2019s History Month comes to a close, let us remember that the great Black women we celebrate were once little girls with dreams. As the founder of Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute, I heartily appreciate the work Dr. Artika Tyner has done and continues to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[105,106,104],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-dr-artika-tyner","tag-ghana","tag-womens-history-month","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1-e1738359884670.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}