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A beginners' guide to the fundamentals of the Dru meditation technique, a method for soothing the mind and relaxing the emotions. The programme includes six short guided meditations designed to instill a sense of profound stillness, quieten and calm a stressed mind and reconnect with the important aspects of life. Each nine-minute meditations is based on one of the elements: Earth, Water, Light, Air and Sky.
This historical novel is set in Ghana. By the author of Fragments and Two Thousand Seasons.
A member of the African elite groping his way out of the background of slavery and colonialism, Baako sees his education as preparation for the lifework of a socially innovative artist. His family, more pragmatic, expects an elite resume to convert into power and wealth in the real world here and now. Unable to harmonize contervailing needs with wider social aspirations, both family and individual drift toward confrontation and inexorable loss. -- From back cover.
Armah Is An Articulate Spokesman Of African History And Identity. In His Fiction, There Is A True Fusion Of Individual And Communal Welfare, National Realities And Pan-African Ideal, Contemporary Situation And Historical Vision. All His Major Works, Including The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Fragments, Why Are We So Blest, And The Healers, Are Comprehensively Discussed.
This memoir on the ancient and future resources of African literature, by the author of Two Thousand Seasons, KMT and other novels, gives colonial Africanist preconceptions of Africa's literary heritage a clean burial. Citing new evidence on oral and written traditions, it shows that Africa's old oral culture, antedating the pyramids, was the matrix from which emerged the hieroglyphic literature of ancient Egypt.
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