Coming soon to iPhone and Android
Our history.
Your adventure.
GriotQuest is a reading app for kids ages 8 to 12. Short stories about Black history and African civilizations, from the Ishango Bone to outer space, told the way a griot would tell them.
How it works
Read, answer, unlock
Read a story
Six short pages, a few minutes each. Some pages can be read aloud.
Take the quiz
Five questions about what you just read, with a second try on each one.
Earn and unlock
Points, badges and a reading streak. Finish four stories to open the next era.
The journey
Six eras, 31 stories
Kids travel from Africa's first civilizations to the leaders, scientists and inventors of today.
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1
Ancient Africa
The first builders, thinkers and kingdoms
The Ishango Bone, Kush, Ancient Egypt, Meroë, Aksum
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2
Great Empires
Gold, scholars and mighty kingdoms
Mansa Musa, Timbuktu, Great Zimbabwe, Benin, Senegambia
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3
Courage and Resistance
Standing up against slavery
Queen Nzinga, Haiti, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass
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4
Building and Rising
New lives, new art, new nations
Madam C.J. Walker, Garrett Morgan, the Harlem Renaissance, Ghana
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5
Civil Rights
The fight for equal rights
Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, the Greensboro Sit-Ins, Selma
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6
Today and Tomorrow
You could be next
Nelson Mandela, Mae Jemison, Wangari Maathai, William Kamkwamba
For grown-ups
Only parents and teachers have accounts. Children read under a profile you create, after you agree to how GriotQuest works.
- We store a nickname, grade and avatar you choose. No photos, last names or child email.
- No ads, and no selling or sharing of children's data.
- No chat or messaging between users.
- You can see your child's progress and delete their profile at any time.
- Hard history, like slavery, is told honestly and gently, with a note suggesting you read together.
- Points and badges are checked on our servers, so they are earned by reading.
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