Sade and The Golden Shoe

About the Book

Sade and The Shoe is a new Nigerian folktale. Sade, the heroine, saves her village from the curse of a golden shoe found by her father in a nearby magic lake. The story uses the influences of traditional West African storytelling, along with customary cadences to weave this tale of a little girl’s adventure and that of her unlikely best friend, the village mosquito. The story is similar to the famed Aesop’s fables and includes a moral that uses animals as significant figures to relate the message of the story.

About the Author

Shahara Ruth is a native of Houston, Texas. She is the owner of Goldfire Productions located in the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan area. Her work encompasses poetry, literature, plays, films and documentaries. Sade and The Shoe is her first published children’s story. Her first poetry book, From the Poet to The People, published in 2004 was critically acclaimed and has been used by both public school forensic teams and universities. Shahara is a graduate of Oglethorpe University and Troy University. She is a retired educator and currently resides in Stone Mountain, Georgia. She was recently featured on PBS. She took a DNA test to find her roots after viewing the program African American Lives which changed the direction of her life as an author. The discovery of her African roots has added value to her writing as she explores the cultures of her ancestors.