Chandler Perry Weisman is a prodigal son of a wealthy Mink Fur Manufacturing Company in New York, who has no interest in joining a family business, but is very much aware of his privileges, and what money can buy. In spite of his father’s wish for him to do something meaningful for his life, he is not in a hurry to pull up his sleeves, until nature decides to throw him in the middle of White African Temporary Housing Settlement in South Africa, facing poverty and violence. His life turns upside down and in the hands of a nineteen year old poverty stricken young man name Yan Bastion, a victim of post-apartheid, who is desperate to get out of poverty and creates a better future for himself and all the children and young people regardless the colour of their skins. It is an impossible dream? The wealthy and the poor meets, and their chance to get out of the ditch depend on each other. American Legend in South Africa captures the struggles of being oneself, true-friendship and questions our contributions to the world. It's an adventure with a message.
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...