Sankofa

Author : Chibundu Onuzo
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780349013138
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sankofa written by Chibundu Onuzo and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A woman wondering who she really is goes in search of a father she never knew--only to find something far more complicated than she ever expected--in this "stirring narrative about family, our capacity to change and the need to belong" (Time). Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. In her 40s, she has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother--the only parent who raised her--is dead. Searching through her mother's belongings one day, Anna finds clues about the African father she never knew. His student diaries chronicle his involvement in radical politics in 1970s London. Anna discovers that he eventually became the president--some would say dictator--of a small nation in West Africa. And he is still alive... When Anna decides to track her father down, a journey begins that is disarmingly moving, funny, and fascinating. Like the metaphorical bird that gives the novel its name, Sankofa expresses the importance of reaching back to knowledge gained in the past and bringing it into the present to address universal questions of race and belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the search for a family's hidden roots. Examining freedom, prejudice, and personal and public inheritance, Sankofa is a story for anyone who has ever gone looking for a clear identity or home, and found something more complex in its place"--

Author : Mattye Crowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998141510
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sankofa written by Mattye Crowley and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Torrance R. Harvey M. S. Ed.
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480942790
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ya Sankofa! written by Torrance R. Harvey M. S. Ed. and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ya Sankofa! By: Torrance R. Harvey M.S. ED. Sometimes I must move slowly like a cat... Sometimes I must move with dispatch. There are times I must be silent, unheard. Just like the morning spring sun shining over the harmonious tweeting birds. Then, there is that one moment in time I must ROAR loudly For everyone to hear and fear everywhere. Bringing their hearts and minds to understand ONE THING. I AM the TRUE Lion and the King! Ya Sankofa! is a literary journey of reflection. It is an artistic expression of cultural awareness in a contemporary sense from a historical lens in the form of a series of poems.

Author : Carmen E. Bovell, Ph.D
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645300927
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking in History: Sankofa (HB) written by Carmen E. Bovell, Ph.D and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking in History: Sankofa Our Trip to Ghana and Benin (HB) By: Carmen E. Bovell, Ph.D Florence Jones Calhoun, M.Ed Desiree DeFlorimonte, Ph.D With this light-hearted description of a journey to West Africa, readers are taken on a journey through time. This trip shares many facts on the history of West Africa and the culture of those who have ancestors from this beautiful region. The authors wrote a daily journal during their travels, making their trip come alive for the reader.

Author : Elleni Tedla
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sankofa written by Elleni Tedla and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To prevent the alienation and crisis facing African youth, this book urges the building of a new form of African education that is firmly founded on all that is positive in indigenous thought and education. It also examines the impact of the concepts that underlie indigenous and Westernized education. As an in-depth illustration of African thought and education, traditional Amara (Ethiopian) thought and education is discussed in two chapters. The book underscores the need to understand Africans on their own terms within the context of their culture, and the necessity to be judicious in importing foreign ideas and institutions to Africa. Otherwise, the cultural and spiritual fabric of the African way of life will be torn beyond repair. This book has great implications for African and African American education.

Author : Khadija Amatullah
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517373399
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sankofa written by Khadija Amatullah and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sankofa: a coloring book of African Prints and Proverbs is intended for adults and children 12 years and older. Sankofa means to reach back and retrieve it, although this work barely scratches the surface of what we need to go back and retrieve. African culture is very rich and diverse. This work, the first of many, is only a glimpse into that richness.

Author : Chibundu Onuzo
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571268900
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spider King's Daughter written by Chibundu Onuzo and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a Betty Trask Award Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize Longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize The Spider King's Daughter is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet set against the backdrop of a changing Lagos, a city torn between tradition and modernity, corruption and truth, love and family loyalty. Seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father. She lives in a She lives in a sprawling mansion in Lagos, protected by armed guards and ferried everywhere in a huge black jeep. But being her father's favourite comes with uncomfortable duties, and she is often lonely behind the high walls of her house. A world away from Abike's mansion, in the city's slums, lives a seventeen-year-old hawker struggling to make sense of the world. His family lost everything after his father's death and now he runs after cars on the roadside selling ice cream to support his mother and sister. When Abike buys ice cream from the hawker one day, they strike up an unlikely and tentative romance, defying the prejudices of Nigerian society. But as they grow closer, revelations from the past threaten their relationship and both Abike and the hawker must decide where their loyalties lie.

Author : Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
Publisher : St. Paul Press
ISBN 13 : 0982619626
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sankofa Moment written by Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. and published by St. Paul Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sankofa Moment gives the 48-year history of the Trinity United Church of Christ with a major emphasis on the building of the largest United Church of Christ congregation within the denomination that developed several ministries and several entities under the pastorate of Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.

Author : Wyatt Bryson
Publisher : Wyatt Bryson
ISBN 13 : 1477622837
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sankofa written by Wyatt Bryson and published by Wyatt Bryson. This book was released on 2012-06-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last night Charlie went on a bender. Today he woke up with a tattoo of the mythical African sankofa bird on his right shoulder blade. The solid black tribal tattoo was probably too dark for his pale white skin, but he hadn't actually chosen the tattoo himself. The sankofa bird looked back over its shoulder as it flew forward justifying its meaning - one can not move intelligently into the future without paying attention to the past. Contrasting again with the too dark tattoo and the too light skin was the pretty brown face of the little girl peaking over her father's shoulder as he cradled her. What on earth was he going to do with this little life? Two days ago he didn't even know she existed. Yesterday he woke up with this strange tattoo. Today he decided to go to the hospital and take responsibility for his daughter. He didn't even know what the tattoo was and why those men had taken it upon themselves to have it given to him. Today it was just some dumb bird that he was contemplating having removed. It would be quite a while before he would find out why he had gotten it and what the significance of it really was. He repositioned her into his arms and tenderly kissed little Sankofa on the forehead. "We can do this."

Author : David Abdulai
Publisher : Konkori International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sankofa written by David Abdulai and published by Konkori International. This book was released on 1995 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The stories and proverbs in Sankofa are drawn from the oral traditional background of the author's African roots ... the poems in the book reflect his views on current issues in our world today"--Cover.