The old world is dead.After a major catastrophe rocks the planet, massive tsunamis swallow coastlines and destroy cities. The remaining survivors desperately seek refuge in the only place left - inland Africa.Battling environmental threats, unforgiving terrain, harsh climates, a total lack of infrastructure, a breakdown of law and orders, and a violent clash of cultures, people have to quickly form new identities and tribes if they want to survive. All nations are now on one land.Certain tribes rise to power, while others - some who were once affluent and powerful - are now enslaved. In the midst of this chaos is one man who clings to a small sliver of hope that one day he will escape his oppressors and reunite with his lost love.
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...
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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...