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A dazzling collection of stories, The Prophet of Zongo Street takes readers to a world that seamlessly blends African folklore and myths with modernity. Set primarily on Zongo Street, a fictitious community in West Africa, the stories -- which are reminiscent of the works of Ben Okri and Amos Tutuola -- introduce us to wonderfully quirky characters and the most uproarious, poignant, and rawest moments of life. There's Kumi, the enigmatic title character who teaches a young boy to finally ask questions of his traditions. And as Ali moves his characters to America we meet Felix, who struggles with America's love of the exotic in "Rachmaninov." The Prophet of Zongo Street heralds a new voice and showcases Mohammed Naseehu Ali's extraordinary ability to craft stories that are both allegorical and unforgettable.
Recorded on location in the Volta Region in Ghana in 2006-07, these stories are the result of collaboration between Anna Cottrell and Agbotadua Togbi Kumassah. Agbotadua Togbi Kumassah translated the Ewe stories into English and Anna Cottrell has retold them in contemporary English for the wider European market. This edition presents the 24 stories in their original form for the Ghanian market.
Haunting, varied, and superbly written, Dog Boy and Other Harrowing Tales is a collection of stories immersed in the Gothic tradition yet told in a modern and inventive way. At the end of the First World War, a group of friends gather at a former Robber Baron estate on Eastern Long Island, only to learn the house holds a monstrous secret. In a Montana prison in 1988, a new dog training program goes awry with horrifying results. A Parisian cemetery in the mid-20th century is home to the ghosts of two centuries of poets, artists, and composers, the specters of a homeless woman's past, and the jolting reality of the modern world. Knitting together the ordinary, the extraordinary, and the supernatural, Dog Boy and Other Harrowing Tales is a boldly imagined literary work by a masterful new storyteller. At a time when most authors of contemporary literature seem obsessed with humor and shying away from documenting the painful aspects of our existence, Erica-Lynn Huberty [has written] a book of stories whose immediate goal is not to entertain or humor us, but to liberate us from this desire Mohammed Naseehu Ali, author of The Prophet of Zongo Street a distinctly American investigation of the emotional corners into which people retreat to pass their lives Hilary Thayer Hamann, author of Anthropology of an American Girl "In Dog Boy and Other Harrowing Tales, Erica-Lynn Huberty reminds us what fiction is all about: beautiful writing, vivid characters, and an imagination that truly soars. A remarkable debut. Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle and Comfort
A celebration of Ama Ata Aidoo's work presented as a festschrift with a broad spectrum of articles and personal memoirs from scholars and literary artists. It conveys the full extent of Aidoo's place as a literary innovator and an exponent of radical social and cultural thought in Africa and internationally on account of its self-consciousness and gender equality. Included are a study, by playwright Femi Osofisan, of the Nigerian film industry and its impact on live theatre and negative images in contemporary Ghanaian music.
Author : Daniel A Melendez Publisher : Les Editions La Porte Celeste Page : 214 pages File Size : 42,34 MB Release : 2020-04-05 Category : Religion ISBN : 9782981388971
Discover in this book more than ninety questions every Christian should ask about the prophet Nostradamus and his prophecies. And their answers that confirm he was a holy man and prophet of God. Christians will forget what pagan writers wrongly said about him! Many Christians do not know that the Messiah gave to M. Nostradamus hundreds of prophecies connected to the Bible prophecies. However, how are Christians going to read those predictions, if they wrongly think the holy man M. Nostradamus, was a vulgar seer, clairvoyant, magician, soothsayer, medium, sorcerer, or astrologer? You, in this book ("M. Nostradamus: Holy man and Prophet of God"), will find more than ninety questions and answers that demonstrate M. Nostradamus was a holy man and prophet of God. The clergy has not realized that the prophet Nostradamus had received his prophecies from the Lord Jesus Christ, an angel, the Holy Spirit, and visions of divine inspiration. Some Christians believe in the pagans' misinterpretations of the first two quatrains (q I 1 and I 2). They wrongly say the prophet Nostradamus used a pot full of water sat on a "tripod" to see in it the prophecies. They do not know that the word "tripod" does not appear in those two quatrains. Pagan people took the word "tripod" from chapter 5 of the letter to HENRY that says that Nostradamus received his prophecies through "the one part of the tri whose feet are like bronze." They did not realize that this last expression represents the Lord Jesus Christ. He calls Himself, the One whose feet are like burnished bronze (Rev. 2: 18). After mentioning those words, Nostradamus to confirm he was addressing the LORD, said that many people attributed to him the prophecies that only belong to the eternal God alone. Because of it, they should ask pardon to M. Nostradamus and God, who gave him the predictions. Some people wrongly condemned the prophet, Nostradamus, as being an astrologer because he worked with the Judaic Astrology or Hebrew Astrology. The man of God, M. Nostradamus, died in the year 1566 AD, and the science of Astronomy officially appeared after the year 1642 AD. The Jews in the past used the Judaic Astrology to fix the dates of their traditional festivals. They needed to know the position of the sun and the phases of the moon so that they could keep the month of Abib (Deut. 16: 1) and the commandment of the LORD (Exod. 12: 1-2). The Christian author (Daniel A Melendez) wishes to open Christian's eyes to the truth of God hidden for centuries about M. Nostradamus. Because of it, he decided to write this book of 212 pages. The title of that volume is M. Nostradamus: Holy man and prophet of God.
This volume showcases new research on popular academic topics in Ghana. Its wide range of focus across disciplines includes topics such as pidgin, performing apologies and politeness, music, the argument for adopting geographical indications (GI) policies for Ghana’s unique agricultural products, and the poetics of names, among many others. It will appeal particularly to students pursuing degrees in Africana and Ghanaian studies.
A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking to southern Zulu-speaking writers, this collection conveys thirty different ways of approaching what it means to be African. Whether about life in the new urban melting pots of Cape Town and Luanda, or amid the battlefield chaos of Zimbabwe and Somalia, or set in the imaginary surreal landscapes born out of the oral storytelling tradition, these stories represent a striking cross section of extraordinary writing. Including works by J. M. Coetzee, Chimamanda Adichie, Nuruddin Farah, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Chinua Achebe, and edited by Rob Spillman of Tin House magazine, Gods and Soldiers features many pieces never before published, making it a vibrant and essential glimpse of Africa as it enters the twenty-first century.
Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume. Arguing that it is impossible to understand African cultural productions without knowledge of the structures of production, distribution, and reception that surround them, the essays grapple with the shifting notion of what "African" means when many African authors and filmmakers no longer live or work in Africa. While the arts continue to flourish in Africa, addressing questions about marginalization, what is center and what periphery, what traditional or conservative, and what progressive or modern requires an expansive view of creative production.
Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering these questions and more, Volume 11, The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and social peculiarities of Africa and the Caribbean impacts not only the writing and reading of novels in those regions, but also has a transformative effect on the novel as a global phenomenon. Together, the volume's 32 contributing experts tell a story about the close relationship between the novel and the project of decolonization, and explore the multiple ways in which novels enable readers to imagine communities beyond their own and thus made this form of literature a compelling catalyst for cultural transformation. The authors show that, even as the novel grows in Africa and the Caribbean as a mark of the elites' mastery of European form, it becomes the essential instrument for critiquing colonialism and for articulating the new horizons of cultural nationalism. Within this historical context, the volume examines works by authors such as Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Zoe Wicomb, J. M. Coetzee, and many others.