Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds

Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our MindsThis book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practised in universities across Africa. Africans immersed in popular traditions of meaning making are denied the right, by those who police the borders of knowledge, to think and represent their realities in accordance with the civilisations and universes they know best. Often, the ways

Starring thirty-seven poets

ready to do great things

witnessed by horrified bystanders

in a musical tribute to Nelson Mandela

The book is designed to instruct and to contribute to a deeper understanding of the subject

de personnes ayant encore une forme de contact avec les fantômes de ces défunts

when the terrain appears treacherous

She brings together African American neo-slave narratives and Black South African post apartheid narratives to reveal the processes by which black subjectivity accounts for its traumatic origins

Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage

ISBN-10 : 1569026882

This is a splendid collection of stories to read and treasure

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