Having traveled to many lands across the globe, I have found nothing more beautiful than the African people, their vibrant culture, and their deeply satisfying, natural way of life. To my Western friends, it is not about poverty or illiteracy, but rather the profound innocence, humility, and unstoppable will to try new things that makes me truly love Africa.
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...