Muntu Warriors, Origin Stories, volume 1
By (Author) Junior MacDonald Beckley
Illustrated by Junior MacDonald Beckley
Black Sands Entertainment Inc
Black Sands Entertainment Inc
7th February 2023
United States
Young Adult
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
Winner of ABC 2022 (United States)
Hardback
118
Width 187mm, Height 273mm
In modern day Africa, a professor stumbles upon an ancient myth about masks that carry the power of the gods. In his expedition to uncover the past, he stumbles on one of these mark and it possesses him. Soon he realizes that he is not the first, and there are many more like him. What will happen now that he knows the truth about the powers of the ancient ones
Kirkus
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Junior MacDonald Beckley is an artist born in Grenoble, France, with origins from Sierra Leone and Chad. He uses his knowledge and skills in art through Muntu Warriors to show his vision of what African culture should be.