Amie seeks to find the child she was fostering before the civil war broke out. She finds herself alone in the African bush and has to protect herself against wild animals and international terrorists. She can't trust anyone and an old witch doctor has predicted her future. Thoughts of her old, naive, 'safe' life back in England are fast disappearing.
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...