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The way of the Elders: West African Spirituality & Tradition

Book titled:
 
The way of the Elders: West African Spirituality & Tradition
West African Spirituality & Tradition
 
              So you want to know about African Spirituality?This book
talks about things our Black African peoples live through
and come up with. THis book talks about the cycles of life
and the traditions our Black African people include in these
cycles. So if you read this book you will learn about
our Black people’s :
 
Spirits and Energy
Offerings and Sacrifice
Shamans:diviners and Healers (Who healed what illness?)
Herbs and Healing recipes
Wildlife and Elements
Dreams, signs and symbols
 
 
Village life
Music, Dance and Ceremony
Family, Pregnancy and Birth
Childhood iNiatition
Marriage-So far what I know about this is the
jumping of the broom
Death and Funerals
West African Spirituality
 

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African Gender Studies!

  A Reader

What did Black African Women Do in history? What
were Their roles? We already know about the MANY
acheivements of OUR BLACk people. But this
book specifically talks about the roles of Black African
women in certain situations.
 
 
African Gender Studies:
 
Visualizing the Body: Western Theories
and African Subjects
 
 
Spiritual Gender, and Power in Asante
History
 
 
Bringing African women in the classroom
 
Rethinking Pedagogy and Epistemology
 
 Decolonizing Feminism
 
Theorizing Matriarchy in Africa: Kinship Ideologies
and Systems in Africa and Europe
 
Women’s Roles and Existential Identities
 
 Woman Woman Marriage
 

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African art book at your service!!

A Short History of African Art (Penguin Art and Architecture)

I’ve always have loved Black Art. Black is beautiful.
So Black is beautiful in our Black people as a race.
And Black is beautiful in what we create. iT’S A
cycle of beauty passed down in what we do.
 
 So let me begin by telling you about African art.
This is a book discussing facts about:
 
Matter and Method
 
North Africa and Islam
 
THe Bantu Migrations
 
The arrival of those Europeans
 
 
The Rock art of Africa
 
THe Ancient Nubians
 
The NOk Culture
 
The Kingdoms of the Western Sudan
 
The Art of the Sherbro, Bulom and Kissi
 
Kanem Borno and the sao Culture
 
Korofofa-The jukun and Related peoples
 
The art of the Akan
 
Land and HIstory
of Gods, life and death
THe Regalia of State and Leadership
 
Igbo Ukwu, THe Niger Delta and the Cross River
Art of the Niger Delta and Cross River Areas
 
 
            So you  interested in more information about
this book huh? Read on. You can buy the book from amazon
at this direct link right here:
 

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Ethiopia & the Missing Link (black historybook)

 

Ethiopia & the Missing Link
 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1930097050/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
Book summary:
 
the coming of the Black men
 
Prehistoric Ethiopia or the Empire of the Atlantis
 
Ethiopian Empire
 
The Ethiopian Pharaoh Domination of Egypt
 
Black Egypt and Her Black Pharaohs
 
The Black Race as Parent Stock
 
Negroes in Ancient Europe
 
Negroes in Ancient America
 
Ethiopia in the Role of International Politics
 
His Majesty Haile Selassie
 
THe Insignificance of the word Negro
 
THe United States of Africa
 
Summary of the Ethiopian Emperors Address
 
The NEgro in Contemporary History
 

 

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The civilizations of Africa Book

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/081392085X/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
 
This book basically talks about how our
Black African people in agriculture,
political, cultural, technological, and
economic history in relation to
developments in the rest of  the world.
 

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Ethiopic an African Writing System: Its History and Principles

 

Ethiopic an African Writing System:Its History and Principles (book)
 
 

This book is earthshaking, groundbreaking. It gives us history
and principles of Ethiopic, An African writing system created
as a graphic representation of mulitiple types of knowledge
as well as languages.
Ethiopic is a major part of the
African Knowledge systesms and one of the
big contributions made by our Black African people
to world history and culture. Ethiopic represents philosophical features,
like ideography, mnemonics, syllograpy, astronomy, numerology and
grammatology.
Ethiopic is known as a great literary tradition in
Ethiopia, which, for example, has made great contribution to the
history of Christianity by saving the Book of Henok. As well, the study
takes a journey through Ethiopic and Egyptian writing systems.

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