The Calabash Child

Author : Diana Pitcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Calabash Child written by Diana Pitcher and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents adaptations and retelling of 17 African folk tales, most of which are Bantu tales of southern and central Africa set against a background of Zulu family life and customs.

Author : Diana Pitcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Calabash Child written by Diana Pitcher and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents adaptations and retelling of 17 African folk tales, most of which are Bantu tales of southern and central Africa set against a background of Zulu family life and customs.

Author : Amaechi Obi
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1609767217
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universal Child written by Amaechi Obi and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary book Universal Child vividly recounts the true story of "every" growing child, and his early childhood indoctrination through social education. Universal Child confronts his confusion, anger, unanswered questions in a bid to find the true meaning of life, and what's in it for him here and beyond, now and after. The book is the first of a series and is just the beginning of the endless story of the real life of a boy named Amy. In his story, it personifies the joys and toils of all the children in this rich world. Amy was born into a wealthy family in Ugbelle, an obscure village in the eastern part of Nigeria. Unknown to him and his parents, his birth was predestined by divine forces. He was a chosen one, and like Jesus Christ, he had in abundance everything any human could possibly desire. His early years were marked by blind earthly adventures, deep questions and open confrontations between him, society, and the Holy and devilish spirits ever residing in him. He decided to choose the teachings of the Holy Spirit, because Amy discovered that His teachings and wisdom far excels every other form of learning. This decision took Amy to places around the world, providing adventures upon adventures. Universal Child will inspire you.

Author : Stephanie Rose Bird
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006330807X
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motherland Herbal written by Stephanie Rose Bird and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful and comprehensive guide in the spirit of Jambalaya and Sacred Woman, an herbalist celebrates ancient and modern African holistic healing. “The message of this book is: hold onto your yams, your collards, watermelon, and roots. There is magic, mystery, connection, and healing stored within them.”—Stephanie Rose Bird Stephanie Rose Bird grew up surrounded by forests, listening to the stories of her ancestors and learning African healing ways. From an early age, she dedicated herself to herbalism and living a spiritually fulfilled life in harmony with nature. Now, the wisdom she as accrued is gathered in this impressive encyclopedic work of African Healing and herbal medicine. Stephanie teaches you how to garden and harvest in unison with the seasons, and how to use herbalism and magic—derived from ancestral and spiritual helpers—to heal. A treasure trove of knowledge, Motherland Herbal showcases an array of recipes and rituals that nourish every facet of life: Seasonal recipes to support overall well-being Tinctures for common ailments such as headaches, flu, or heartburn Remedies for improving mental health, lessening symptoms of anxiety, stress, or depression Natural body and home care products, from facials to cleaning solutions Herbal Baths for relaxation, sexual wellness, and good luck Rituals and Altars for universal experiences, such as learning to letting go after loss and improving creativity and fertility Love Potions, Sleep Potions, Protective Amulets, and more Written in Stephanie’s warm and authoritative voice, Motherland Herbal seamlessly blends activism and ancestral folklore with the realms of spirituality, gardening, and holistic wellness. Her deep reverence for the wisdom of her ancestors infuses every page of this guide, which is a foundational resource that will shape the landscape of African healing and folk medicine for generations to come. Motherland Herbal includes 54 original pieces of art, including maps and artwork created by the author.

Author : Tolu Odugbemi
Publisher : Tolu Odugbemi
ISBN 13 : 9789784871297
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Textbook of Medicinal Plants from Nigeria written by Tolu Odugbemi and published by Tolu Odugbemi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raouf Mama
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810167581
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortune's Favored Child written by Raouf Mama and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raouf Mama is widely beloved by children and adults alike for his books and especially for his African and multicultural storytelling, which incorporates poetry, song, music, and dance. In Fortune’s Favored Child, the master storyteller tells his own story, beginning in the West African country of Benin. Through a harrowing experience with sickness, an encounter with a clairvoyant traditional healer, and astonishing twists of fortune, the protagonist struggles to uncover his real identity, to get an education, and to make his own way in the world. His journey takes him to the shores of the United States to attend graduate school at the University of Michigan and begin a new chapter in his life. .

Author : Francoise UGOCHUKWU
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1912234289
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Torn Apart written by Francoise UGOCHUKWU and published by Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 (also known as the Biafran War) has been described as a 'forgotten war'. Yet it led to the birth of the NGO Doctors without Borders / Medecins sans frontieres and equipped journalists with the intercultural skills they later used in their coverage of other African conflicts. The Biafran conflict equally ended up strengthening the special relationship between France and Nigeria. From 1970 in particular, the Nigerian education sector was taken up with a wave of francophilia, which boosted the teaching of French in Language programmes at the secondary school level. The Civil War, which ravaged the South-Eastern part of the federation, was, above all, a collective experience which inspired poets, novelists and playwrights - Achebe, Soyinka, Okigbo, Saro-Wiwa, Okpewho, Adichie and others, while bringing about a massive religious revival which affected the whole region. The war mobilised politicians and NGOs, it changed the country and brought it into the limelight. This book reveals, through the study of oral genres, radio bulletins and the impact of the conflict on literature and the Web, the human history of the war, the role played by the media and the deep scar the conflict left on the bodies and minds of survivors.

Author : Sarah Nuttall
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822339076
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African and Diaspora Aesthetics written by Sarah Nuttall and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cameroon, a monumental "statue of liberty" is made from scrap metal. In Congo, a thriving popular music incorporates piercing screams and carnal dances. When these and other instantiations of the aesthetics of Africa and its diasporas are taken into account, how are ideas of beauty reconfigured? Scholars and artists take up that question in this invigorating, lavishly illustrated collection, which includes more than one hundred color images. Exploring sculpture, music, fiction, food, photography, fashion, and urban design, the contributors engage with and depart from canonical aesthetic theories as they demonstrate that beauty cannot be understood apart from ugliness. Highlighting how ideas of beauty are manifest and how they mutate, travel, and combine across time and distance, continental and diasporic writers examine the work of a Senegalese sculptor inspired by Leni Riefenstahl's photographs of Nuba warriors; a rich Afro-Brazilian aesthetic incorporating aspects of African, Jamaican, and American cultures; and African Americans' Africanization of the Santería movement in the United States. They consider the fraught, intricate spaces of the urban landscape in postcolonial South Africa; the intense pleasures of eating on Réunion; and the shockingly graphic images on painted plywood boards advertising "morality" plays along the streets of Ghana. And they analyze the increasingly ritualized wedding feasts in Cameroon as well as the limits of an explicitly "African" aesthetics. Two short stories by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto gesture toward what beauty might be in the context of political failure and postcolonial disillusionment. Together the essays suggest that beauty is in some sense future-oriented and that taking beauty in Africa and its diasporas seriously is a way of rekindling hope. Contributors. Rita Barnard, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mia Couto, Mark Gevisser, Simon Gikandi, Michelle Gilbert, Isabel Hofmeyr, William Kentridge, Dominique Malaquais, Achille Mbembe, Cheryl-Ann Michael, Celestin Monga, Sarah Nuttall, Patricia Pinho, Rodney Place, Els van der Plas, Pippa Stein, Françoise Vergès

Author : Emmanuel Igwaro Odongo-Aginya
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481780026
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devout Woman written by Emmanuel Igwaro Odongo-Aginya and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torn between traditional and the Christian religions, Anyadwe, the wife of Ogwok, one of the pioneers of Christian faith in Coomit village, lead a stormy life with her posthumous son, Acellam. Because of her pious faith in the Christian faith she had received and in her dead husband Ogwok, Anyadwe rejected all the traditional inheritance marriage laws which were fronted to her by Opuk, the paternal uncle of her husband Ogwok. Opuk was a hard liner traditionalist, medicine man and soothsayer who chaired all the village elders meets. He was highly respected in the village because of these irreplaceable qualities. His prophecies were precise and his herbal medicines were indubitable. Nevertheless he abominated Christianity and called it white man hoax doctrine of dominancy over a black man land, cultures and integrities. Even if Anyadew gave due respect to Opuk leaderships as anyone else in the village did, their ideologies about Christian God and traditional gods were unmatchable. Notwithstanding the snappish differences between Anyadwe and Opuk, the village community appreciated their stands. As the results, most of villagers practiced both Traditional and the Christians faith because of Anyadwe and Opuk influence. Opuk oft en prophesied about the calamities to befall the village at the start of the year. These he always attributed to the disobedience of the villagers for the reason that the community had accepted the Christians God and has forsaken their own traditional gods whom they have been worshipping for years. During such occasions he also prophesied successes for the village which he also accredited to those who participated in traditional rituals to appease the traditional gods. Even Missionaries at the Coomit Mission were sometimes baffled by Opuk ingenious acts and words; however describing them as Satan powers at work. Nevertheless, they favored Anyadwe and described her as a role model of a pious Christian.

Author : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland written by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: