Kubuka & the Magic Calabash

Kubuka & the Magic Calabash

Author: Janet Keegans

Publisher: Struik Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9781868729500

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Set in Africa at the time of drought, this is the tale of Kubuka's quest to find the magic calabash u an instruction given to him by Amanzi the rain spirit, who dwelled in the depths of a baobab tree.


Magical Calabash

Magical Calabash

Author: Ayele Kumari

Publisher: Ayele Kumari

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1503225119

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Learn Recipes for Healing and Raising Your Vibrations Use the Divine African Mother Oracle for life guidance. Learn how to connect with the Ancestral Mothers Create a Sacred Sister Circle Traditional and Modern Day Women's Wisdom Awaken Your Dream Life and more! Magical Calabash is an anthology about African Goddesses, ancestral mothers, women's wisdom, and magic. SiStars of various backgrounds and experiences come together to share their stories and teachings for women in the diaspora. A calabash is a traditional magic pot that represents the cosmic womb. Inside it, we add ingredients to direct our intentions to that which we want to "birth to life". The intention here, is to offer practical Guidance to connect and work with the Divine African Mother, ancestral wisdom, and to use it to empower lives for today.


Max the Cat

Max the Cat

Author: Nana Grey-Johnson

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

Published: 2015-06-27

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 1631357697

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In Max the Cat, Max, the son of the district officer, returns to his provincial hometown after qualifying as a teacher. However, Max returns under a cloud. His father is unhappy with reports of his son’s radical political activities at college. This sets the tone of a one-sided relationship: While the son loves his father and holds him in highest regard, the ambitious old politician plots for Max’s removal by any means, fair or foul. The young man’s crusade against official corruption does not sit well with some of the skeletons that his father would rather keep hidden to maintain his privilege and protect his friends. Between these two men there is a woman – a loving stepmother and a faithful wife – who tries to reconcile her stepson and her husband. With quiet faith and patience, she lives with the great irony in their differences arising out of the son’s firm belief in the moral principles his father taught him, while her husband’s own faith in his early teachings has been eroded by complacency and compromise after years in office. Father and son are set on a warpath. Behind the scenes in this struggle, the spirits of their ancestors are at work. The interplay is quite thrilling, as African folklore, religion and contemporary politics mix dramatically in this book to see if good triumphs over evil.


Tales from Silver Lands

Tales from Silver Lands

Author: Charles Joseph Finger

Publisher: Scholastic

Published: 1924

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780590424479

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A collection of nineteen tales from the Indians of various South American countries.


Calabash Cat

Calabash Cat

Author: James Rumford

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2003-09-22

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 0547528647

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Calabash Cat, a West African cat, sets out one day to find where the world ends. His adventures take him across a desert, grasslands, a jungle, and the ocean, until he finds what he is looking for. Illustrated in the style of the calabash engravers of the country of Chad, James Rumford’s original tale will keep you thinking long after you have closed the covers of this book—about our one world, and about seeking knowledge and finding wisdom.


Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2010-10-29

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 0307373541

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With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo’s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents’ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father’s business; and Kainene’s English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we have had before.


Iyami Osoronga: Divine Femininity

Iyami Osoronga: Divine Femininity

Author: Chief Fagbemileke Fatunmise

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-02-28

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1479791164

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It is my prayer that all of you who read this text will be truly blessed as well as inspired! I appeal to you to learn the names of The Ancient Ancestral Mothers and be blessed; for, they promised they will bless anyone who knows their names; any one who call their names; they will bless any one who doable (put their Ori/Head) to the ground or floor in honor of them and receive your blessings. Do these things for all nations and generations know of them! I am in hopes that each of you will have a deeper insight and appreciation of Divine Feminine Energy (DFE) the Universal Ase of all existence. This is your opportunity to rise to another spiritual dimension and excel above Earthly Trappings. Give thanks to Yeye Osun for she is the first Iyami. She houses the Divine Feminine Energy in her sacred cauldron i.e. womb.


River of Stars

River of Stars

Author: Guy Gavriel Kay

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 690

ISBN-13: 1101608935

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“River of Stars is a major accomplishment, the work of a master novelist in full command of his subject.”—Michael Dirda, in The Washington Post “Game of Thrones in China.”—Salon.com Ren Daiyan was still just a boy when he took the lives of seven men while guarding an imperial magistrate. That moment on a lonely road changed his life in entirely unexpected ways, sending him into the forests of Kitai among the outlaws. From there he emerges years later—and his life changes again, dramatically, as he circles toward the court and emperor, while war approaches Kitai from the north. Lin Shan is the daughter of a scholar, his beloved only child. Educated by him in ways young women never are, gifted as a songwriter and calligrapher, she finds herself living a life suspended between two worlds. Her intelligence captivates an emperor—and alienates women at the court. But when her father’s life is endangered by the savage politics of the day, Shan must act in ways no woman ever has. In an empire divided by bitter factions circling an exquisitely cultured emperor who loves his gardens and his art far more than the burdens of governing, dramatic events on the northern steppe alter the balance of power in the world, leading to events no one could have foretold, under the river of stars.