Kende! Kende! Kende!

Written by Kirsten Cappy & Yaya Gentille
Illustrated by Rahana Dariah

A multilingual story of love and learning, joy and journey.

Inspired by the families throughout Central Africa who are forced to leave their homes, this is an honest but hopeful own-voice narrative about displacement, migration, and finding a new home.

Having fled their village as conflict approaches, Mamá, Papá, Lolie, and Nico live in a refugee camp until they are chosen for resettlement in North America. Their new city is a go, go, go of new challenges, but also a return to love and learning, joy and journey.

A text woven from three languages (English, French and words in Lingala) celebrates multilingual speakers and the resilience of refugees.

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In KENDE! KENDE! KENDE! going is also the beginning of a new world, but a young girl’s constant desire to be on the move, to kende, quickly becomes a matter of survival. - New York Times