A collection of poems by young leaders across Africa. Written by members of the inaugural 2018 Obama Foundation African Leaders Program."These poems and these leaders speak with the African drumbeat felt underfoot and emulate our centuries old oral traditions; they remind us that it is never too late to reach out, to take a step and to take a stand." ~ Athol Williams, South African Poet and Social Philosopher
This evocative study of a water Goddess among the Igbo of Lake Oguta in southeastern Nigeria, thoroughly explores the rituals, beliefs and social organization associated with rituals of women's power. A form of Mammy Wata found through coastal Western Africa...
These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault...
After enjoying years as a popular journalist and poet, intellectual and freethinker Gerald Massey turned his vast studies in the field of Egyptology into A Book of the Beginnings, a bold statement that the origin of all civilization lays in...