An African on African life
The occasions when a family may call on him are the four crises in human life, birth, initiation, marriage and death, and then only as a group affected by these events. To this moving and readable book is prefixed a dedication to all the dispossessed youth of Africa: "For perpetuation of commun...
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Veröffentlicht in: | New Statesman 2006-12, Vol.135 (4822), p.62 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The occasions when a family may call on him are the four crises in human life, birth, initiation, marriage and death, and then only as a group affected by these events. To this moving and readable book is prefixed a dedication to all the dispossessed youth of Africa: "For perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight of African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines." |
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ISSN: | 1364-7431 1758-924X |