This novel is about a young black girl named Africa, growing up without parents. Living in a group home for girls, she decided to runaway to live a more glamorous life. Instead she runs into a pimp, becomes addicted to drugs and money, every time she feels it can’t get any worse it does. Being diagnosed with two months to live, her mother appears out of nowhere, but only to receive animosity from her daughter. Africa just wants a way out of life!!
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...