Recueil de nouvelles né de la longue expérience africaine de l'auteur mais aussi de sa passion pour les immensités mystérieuses du continent et des peuples qui l'habitent. Il relie le passé de ces pays à une vision positive et optimiste de leur avenir faisant une grande place à une jeunesse entreprenante bien éloignée des clichés misérabilistes.
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...