Heart Prints

Heart Prints

Author: Julie Ireland Keene

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-10

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 1467043206

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Looking for some practical psychological and spiritual solutions to life's dilemmas and mysteries? In this book a Unity minister shares her journey of seeking and finding ways of not only surviving but thriving in the midst of life's ups and downs. This is a collection of short talks that Rev. Julie Keene has given over her thirty year career as minister and workshop leader. Helpful & inspirational messages appear in each of the following sections: The Cosmic View Weave Us Together in Love Walking Through Our Storms Justice, Mercy, Forgiveness Happiness, Joy, Laughter Hope Can I Help? Ask. Reverend Julie Julie Ireland Keene has served Unity ministries in Missouri, Ohio, Idaho, Utah, and Florida. She also traveled extensively throughout the United States speaking and presenting workshops. She is the author of several books including her spiritual autobiography, From Soap Opera to Symphony, Website: www.Jewelskeenespirit.com


Heartprints of Africa

Heartprints of Africa

Author: Cinda Adams Brooks

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-09-17

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781516810673

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When Cinda decides to visit her identical twin, Linda, and family in Northern Uganda, little does she know they will soon be running for their lives. How did a relaxing vacation result in a terrifying escape from artillery and automatic gunfire? The answer begins four decades earlier when their parents and family of five children leave everything familiar in America to start life as medical missionaries in rural East Africa. Three generations of a family's love, forged by shared faith, struggles, and triumphs, serve them now as they fight for survival.


Dictionary of African Biography

Dictionary of African Biography

Author: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

Publisher:

Published: 2012-02-02

Total Pages: 3382

ISBN-13: 0195382072

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From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).


The Companion to African Literatures

The Companion to African Literatures

Author: G. D. Killam

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780253336330

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"Refreshing..." -- African Sudies Review "The entries are knowledgeable, thorough, and clearly written.... Highly recommended... " --Choice "...an ambitious reference guide to works on African literature." - African Studies Review "This comprehensive compendium will be a handy companion for anyone working on African literatures. The entries are authoritative and up-to-date, providing reliable information on the hundreds of authors and texts that have contributed to a whole continent's literary flowering." --Bernth Lindfors A comprehensive introduction and guide to African-authored works, with over 1,000 cross-referenced entries covering classics in African writing, literary genres and movements, biographical details of authors, and wider themes linking African, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American literatures.


Keorapetse Kgositsile

Keorapetse Kgositsile

Author: Keorapetse Kgositsile

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1496222113

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Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa’s second poet laureate, was a political activist, teacher, and poet. He lived, wrote, and taught in the United States for a significant part of his life and collaborated with many influential and highly regarded writers, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Plumpp, Dudley Randall, and George Kent. This comprehensive collection of Kgositsile’s new and collected works spans almost fifty years. During his lifetime, Kgositsile dedicated the majority of his poems to people or movements, documenting the struggle against racism, Western imperialism, and racial capitalism, and celebrating human creativity, particularly music, as an inherent and essential aspect of the global liberation struggle. This collection demonstrates the commitment to equality, justice, and egalitarianism fostered by cultural workers within the mass liberation movement. As the introduction notes, Kgositsile had an “undisputed ability to honor the truth in all its complexity, with a musicality that draws on the repository of memory and history, rebuilt through the rhythms and cadences of jazz.” Addressing themes of Black solidarity, displacement, and anticolonialism, Kgositsile’s prose is fiery, witty, and filled with conviction. This collection showcases a voice that wanted to change the world—and did.


Longing for Africa

Longing for Africa

Author: Annie Schrank

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781545065839

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When twenty-year-old Annie leaves her privileged life in suburban New York to set up a leather clothing factory in Ethiopia, she anticipates glorious savannas, magnificent animals, and colorful tribesmen. Her treasured childhood Africa scrapbook never prepared her for the isolated, barren mountains of northern Ethiopia, relentless poverty, and a ten-year drought and famine unacknowledged by the world. Housed in a primitive mud hut with no electricity or indoor plumbing, falling in love with a handsome Italian, and forced to flee the military coup that toppled Haile Selassie, will Annie find the Africa of her childhood dreams or will she return home, disillusioned? Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Gilbert, Alexandra Fuller, or Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen). "With a title like this, of course, I was compelled to read this beautifully written book! A fascinating and adventurous life, spiced with danger, and with a love story thrown in. You can't go wrong." Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE. Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute. UN Messenger of Peace. "This swept me away. Ann Schrank writes like a magical spider, spinning continental webs that ensnare the reader. There's flavor, fragrance, wit, perseverance, and pinpoint observational awareness. Owning a great story doesn't guarantee being able to tell it well. It's a gift with which Ms. Schrank is lavishly endowed." Richard Bangs. TV host and producer and author of numerous travel books. "Each chapter brims with anticipation and springs alive with poignant description. A girl reveals in a glance the story of her desperate hunger, told in words so intense we can smell Africa, from the spices to the rotting fruit. Teeming with historical overview and literary flourish, Longing for Africa reads like Graham Greene plus romance." Cathy Luchetti. Author of Women of the West, Children of the West, and Men of the West. "A memorable story of love, loss and Italian cooking, Schrank's descriptions of the Palmucci's Sunday lunch table had me dining right there alongside her. Schrank is a skillful storyteller, writing with compassion and fondness for the people who care about Africa and those who have come to call the continent home." Robyn Keene-Young. Author and wildlife documentary producer.