Nkechi Taifa is an attorney, activist, educator, author and mother. She is the author of several books for young people: Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung; The Adventures of Kojo and Ama; Three Tales of Wisdom; New Afrikan Children of the Sun (co-authored with Imamu Kuumba, and, forthcoming, Aisha and the Magic Ankh. These classics were originally written while teaching at an Independent Black School during the late 1970s, and some have now been re-published for a new generation. Taifa is also the author of the best-seller memoir - Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice.
