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Book Synopsis Tales My Ghanaian Grandmother Told Me by : Dzagbe Cudjoe
Download or read book Tales My Ghanaian Grandmother Told Me written by Dzagbe Cudjoe and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a selection of authentic stories from African myth and legend, told by the author with interesting and unique twists. Although the origins are not necessarily known, the tales all center on the Ghanaian people, their culture, and beliefs. A very nice selection, creatively and warmly told.
Book Synopsis Tales My Ghanaian Grandmother Told Me by : Dzagbe Cudjoe
Download or read book Tales My Ghanaian Grandmother Told Me written by Dzagbe Cudjoe and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a selection of authentic stories from African myth and legend, retold by the author with interesting and unique twists. Although the origins are not necessarily known, the tales all center on the Ghanaian people, their culture, and beliefs. A very nice selection, creatively and warmly told.
Book Synopsis Tales My Grandmother Told Me by : Sola Onifade
Download or read book Tales My Grandmother Told Me written by Sola Onifade and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stories My Grandmother Told Me by : Gabriela Maya Bernadett
Download or read book Stories My Grandmother Told Me written by Gabriela Maya Bernadett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illuminating and deeply personal debut from Gabriela Maya Bernadett, Stories My Grandmother Told Me explores culture, race, and chosen family, set against the backdrop of the twentieth-century American Southwest. In a hilly Southern California suburb in the late twentieth century, Gabriela Maya Bernadett listens as her grandmother tells her a story. It’s the true story of Esther Small, the great-granddaughter of slaves, who became one of the few Black students to graduate from NYU in the 1940s. Having grown up in Harlem, Esther couldn’t imagine a better place to live; especially not somewhere in the American Southwest. But when she learns of a job teaching Native American children on a reservation, Esther decides to take a chance. She soon finds herself on a train to Fort Yuma, Arizona; unaware that each year, the Bureau of Indian Affairs kidnaps the native Tohono O’odham children from the reservation and forces them to be educated in the ‘ways of the White man.’ It doesn’t take long for Esther to notice how Fort Yuma parallels her own grandmother’s story as a slave in the South—the native children, constantly belittled by teachers and peers, are forced to perform manual labor for local farmers. One of two Black people in Fort Yuma, Esther feels isolated, never sure where she belongs in a community deeply divided between the White people and the Tohono O’odhams. John, the school bus driver and Tohono O’odham tribe member, is one of the only people she connects with. Friendship slowly grows into love, and together, Esther and John navigate a changing America. Seamlessly weaving in the present day with the past, Stories My Grandmother Told Me blends a woman’s memory of her life, and that woman’s granddaughter’s memories of how she heard these stories growing up. Bernadett’s captivating narrative explores themes of identity, tradition, and belonging, showing what it really means to exist in a multicultural America.
Book Synopsis Virtues in African Stories by : Kwame Afadzi Insaidoo
Download or read book Virtues in African Stories written by Kwame Afadzi Insaidoo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These thrilling, whimsically and action packed anthology of adventurous stories bring to life some vital aspects of traditional African culture. These wonderful African traditional stories offer a rare glimpse into a portion of African traditional culture not often openly discussed outside many remote villages they originate from. As you peer through these pages be prepared to be thrilled and amazed as some aspects of ancient African culture are brought to life through amazing story telling. Most of the stories are used to reinforce the traditional virtues in these tribal societies. Some of the stories illustrate and exemplify what happens to youngsters when they choose to follow the century old African tradition and culture; and when another youngster deviates from the traditional African values of respecting and honoring their elders. And yes, some of the stories are told to young girls in rural areas as cautionary tales to keep them from marrying total strangers outside their respective tribes. Most of the stories and folktales here are fictionalized and many characters borrowed from various cultures to entertain the reading audience, while imparting numerous traditional virtues and morals into the youngsters. The ancient traditional African elders strongly believe in inculcating and ingraining these societal virtues into their youngsters, because like the ancient Greek philosophers, the African elders deeply concurred with Plato’s enunciation that: “Now since men are by nature acquisitive, jealous, combative and erotic, how shall we persuade them to behave themselves? By the Policeman’s omnipresent club? It is a brutal method, costly and irritating. There is a better way, and this is by lending to the moral requirements of the community.”
Download or read book Aftershocks written by Nadia Owusu and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The Glass Castle, a deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award–winner Nadia Owusu about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through. A Most-Anticipated Selection by * The New York Times * Entertainment Weekly * O, The Oprah Magazine * New York magazine * Vogue * Time * Elle * Minneapolis Star Tribune * Electric Literature * Goodreads * The Millions *Refinery29 * HelloGiggles * Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again. Just as she and her family settled into a new home, her father would tell them it was time to say their goodbyes. The instability wrought by Nadia’s nomadic childhood was deepened by family secrets and fractures, both lived and inherited. Her Armenian American mother, who abandoned Nadia when she was two, would periodically reappear, only to vanish again. Her father, a Ghanaian, the great hero of her life, died when she was thirteen. After his passing, Nadia’s stepmother weighed her down with a revelation that was either a bombshell secret or a lie, rife with shaming innuendo. With these and other ruptures, Nadia arrived in New York as a young woman feeling stateless, motherless, and uncertain about her future, yet eager to find her own identity. What followed, however, were periods of depression in which she struggled to hold herself and her siblings together. Aftershocks is the way she hauled herself from the wreckage of her life’s perpetual quaking, the means by which she has finally come to understand that the only ground firm enough to count on is the one written into existence by her own hand. Heralding a dazzling new writer, Aftershocks joins the likes of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight and William Styron’s Darkness Visible, and does for race identity what Maggie Nelson does for gender identity in The Argonauts.
Book Synopsis Life Is Not a Fairy Tale, but . . . by : Silianise Moise
Download or read book Life Is Not a Fairy Tale, but . . . written by Silianise Moise and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happy are the dreamers who were not afraid to pay the price to make their dreams come true” —Silianise Moise
Book Synopsis Anansi and the Golden Pot by : Taiye Selasi
Download or read book Anansi and the Golden Pot written by Taiye Selasi and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Allow me to introduce myself." But he needed no introduction. "Anansi the spider!" said Anansi the boy. "The tales were true!" "Traditional tales are always true," the spider answered, laughing. "Nothing lasts so long as truth, nor travels quite so far." Award-winning author of Ghana Must Go, Taiye Selasi, reimagines the story of Anansi, the much-loved trickster, for a new generation. Kweku has grown up hearing stories about the mischievous spider Anansi. He is given the nickname Anansi by his father because of his similarly cheeky ways. On a holiday to visit his beloved Grandma in Ghana, Anansi the spider and Anansi the boy meet, and discover a magical pot that can be filled with whatever they want. Anansi fills it again and again with his favourite red-red stew, and eats so much that he feels sick. Will he learn to share this wonderful gift? This charming retelling of a West African story teaches readers about the dangers of greed, and the importance of being kind. Tinuke Fagborun's colourful illustrations bring the magic and wonder of the tale to life.
Book Synopsis The Barefoot Book of Animal Tales by : Naomi Adler
Download or read book The Barefoot Book of Animal Tales written by Naomi Adler and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy nine fun-filled animal adventures. Gathered from cultures all over the world, the traditional tales teach the importance of community, bravery, kindness, and a sense of humor.
Book Synopsis Stories to Live By by : James O'Reilly
Download or read book Stories to Live By written by James O'Reilly and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good stories have an unusual power to guide people through life. They can be roadmaps to the unknown, signposts to inner peace, and are often turned to in times of trouble and retold to children, friends, and family to help get through life's rough patches. Featuring contributions from Robert Fulghum, Paulo Coelho, Sylvia Boorstein, Caroline Myss, Dave Barry, and M. Scott Peck among others, this collection of inspiring stories offers solace, provides guidance, and illuminates pathways to change, exploring the human condition and illustrating through anecdotes how people have found joy in life. The stories share human foibles and help readers accept and avoid them, pointing them toward a greater sense of tranquility and happiness.
Book Synopsis Listen to Your Footsteps by : Kojo Baffoe
Download or read book Listen to Your Footsteps written by Kojo Baffoe and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kojo Baffoe embodies what it is to be a contemporary African man. Of Ghanaian and German heritage, he was raised in Lesotho and moved to South Africa at the age of 27. Forever curious, Kojo has the enviable ability to simultaneously experience moments intimately and engage people (and their views) sincerely, while remaining detached enough to think through his experiences critically. He has earned a reputation as a thinker, someone who lives outside the box and free of the labels that society seeks to place on us. Listen to Your Footsteps is an honest and, at times, raw collection of essays from a son, a father, a husband, a brother and a man deeply committed to doing the internal work. Kojo reflects on losing his mother as a toddler, being raised by his father, forming an identity, living as an immigrant, his tussles with substance abuse, as well as his experiences of fatherhood, marriage and making a career in a fickle industry. He gives an extended glimpse into the experiences that make boys become men, and the battles that make men discover what they are made of, all the while questioning what it means to be ‘a man’.
Book Synopsis Tourism and Memories of Home by : Sabine Marschall
Download or read book Tourism and Memories of Home written by Sabine Marschall and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ as destinations of touristic journeys and adds to recent scholarly interest in the intersection between tourism and migration. It covers the temporary visits and journeys in search of home and homelands by migrants, displaced people, exiles and diasporic communities in a wide range of different geographical and historical contexts. Personal and collective forms of memory are shown to play a key role in the motivation for, and experience of, such journeys. The volume contributes to the investigation of the tourism–memory nexus as it conceptualizes memory as underpinning touristic mobility, experience and performativity. Based on ethnographic case studies and other types of qualitative empirical research, the chapters of this book foreground individual touristic experiences, emotions, memories, perceptions, the search for identity and a sense of belonging. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of tourism, heritage, anthropology, identity studies, memory studies and migration/diaspora studies.
Book Synopsis Mother Country by : Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Download or read book Mother Country written by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff and published by Headline. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 JHALAK PRIZE*** A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair. For the pioneers of the Windrush generation, Britain was 'the Mother Country'. They made the long journey across the sea, expecting to find a place where they would be be welcomed with open arms; a land in which you were free to build a new life, eight thousand miles away from home. This remarkable book explores the reality of their experiences, and those of their children and grandchildren, through 22 unique real-life stories spanning more than 70 years. "The story of Windrush, is, like any other, a story of humanity. Of life, love, struggle, hope, misery, success and failure. It's one that is too often neglected in our media ... but this volume acts as a remedy to that failure of story-telling, which I ask you to both savour and share." - David Lammy MP Contributors include: Catherine Ross, Corinne Bailey-Rae, David Lammy, Gail Lewis, Hannah Lowe, Howard Gardner, Jamz Supernova, Kay Montano, Kemi Alemoru, Kimberley McIntosh, Lazare Sylvestre, Lenny Henry, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, Myrna Simpson, Naomi Oppenheim, Natasha Gordon, Nellie Brown, Paul Reid, Riaz Phillips, Rikki Beadle-Blair, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Sharon Frazer-Carroll.
Book Synopsis Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth by : Nadia von Benzon
Download or read book Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth written by Nadia von Benzon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the alternative experiences of children and young people whose everyday lives contradict ideas and ideals of normalcy from the local to the global context. Presenting empirical research and conceptual interventions from a variety of international contexts, this book seeks to contribute to understandings of alterity, agency and everyday precarity. The young lives foregrounded in this volume include the experiences of transnational families, children in ethnic minority communities, street-living young people, disabled children, child soldiers, victims of abuse, politically active young people, working children and those engaging with alternative education. By exploring ‘other’ ways of being, doing, and thinking about childhood, this book addresses questions around what it is to be a child and what it is to be marginalised in society. The narratives explore the everydayness and the mundanity of difference as they are experienced through social structures and relationships, simultaneously recognizing and critiquing notions of agency and power. This book, including a discussion resource for teaching or peer reading groups, will appeal to academics, students and researchers across subject disciplines including Human Geography, Children’s Geography, Social Care and Childhood Studies.
Book Synopsis African Folklore by : Patricia Itohan Aina
Download or read book African Folklore written by Patricia Itohan Aina and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Have you ever thought of exploring or understanding the diversity of cultures? If yes. Then this is the book for you." The book is about growing up in a typical African traditional setting. Insight is thrown into the cultural dictates that made the typical African child. The ways of transfer of a sense of conduct which influenced the lifestyle, and provided a way of response to life situations. This teaching is shown through the stories, cultural practices, cultural beliefs, taboos, and myths shared by a desperate grandmother with her young grandchild.
Book Synopsis Maame, the Storyteller - 1 by : Roselyn Byrne
Download or read book Maame, the Storyteller - 1 written by Roselyn Byrne and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story telling 'Anansisem' (meaning Anansi stories) has been a source of entertainment and also education for children in Ashanti for generations. Most of the stories were originally told orally and it was through the respect for tradition and the will to preserve the tradition and custom by the Ashantis that most of the children's stories survive today. In this collection of stories, there is a retelling of stories that have been told by parents and grandparents many years ago, to their children and grandchildren, most of whom are still alive. There may be additions here and there in an attempt to bring the gist of the story up to date and to help children of other nations to understand the stories better. Nevertheless, particular attention has been paid to maintaining the authenticity and integrity of an Ashanti folktale as told and known over the generations.The heroes in these tales are the animals of the forest, the Chiefs and people of villages, sometimes both are the heroes. The clever advice of the village doctor saved an unfortunate child being born by a selfish and callous woman in the 'Tale of Two Barren Women'; and a lesson is told in why we should leave things and creatures in their natural habitat in 'Trouble Seeks No man ... Man Seeks Trouble'; and there is also a lesson to be learned in 'Why Nephews Inherit in Ashanti'.
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Download or read book The Barefoot Book of Animal Tales written by and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy nine fun-filled animal adventures. Gathered from cultures all over the world, the traditional tales teach the importance of community, bravery, kindness, and a sense of humor.
