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A Place of Nights
His name's Ku'unbu. He hails from the western region of Oyo, and he's led its army to the Ethiopian plains. Under direct orders from the king, he must protect Princess Emina, the nation's cherished treasure. Ku'unbu remains ever vigilant. Foreboding spirits possess the adolescent princess, wars shake the foundations of the emerging city-state, and betrayals undermine royal authority.
Souls of Myrrh
Oloye Karade's Souls of Myrrh is a dark, twisting, supernatural tale that traverses the fantasies and realities of life and the characters that experience it. To begin with, our heroine, Deborah Hendricks, finds out that her beloved died in a car accident. Her already fragile existence shatters and she wanders aimlessly until found by a high priest who initiates her into the Orisha faith. Deborah soon becomes pregnant, and she believes it an immaculate conception brought about by her incorporeal lover. The priest divines the child as Oshun, a reincarnated goddess and together they journey to strange places in this world and others.
Storms of the Orisha
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The Ifa/Orisha Religious Tradition
The Ifa/Orisha Religious Tradition: A New World Perspective is the latest work by renown author Oloye "Baba" Ifa Karade. The text centers on the importance of deepening understandings of this African Traditional Faith via historical and societal studies. The thesis is that there is a great importance to having a global perspective on Ifa/Orisha in order to see how the faith developed and how world views impact the thoughts and behaviors, and rituals held by adherents and disciples (iyawos to awos). The text takes the reader on the author's intellectual and spiritual journey, and serves as a culmination of his involvement in Ifa/Orisha for over three decades. Presented are a number of lecture...
Masters of the Nine Gates
Concisely written, The Masters of the Nine Gates is a synthesis of Language Arts instruction designed to enhance literary capacity and comprehension, academic motivation, and defi nitive levels of test strategies and applications. The text sheds light on the urban middle school dynamic. It is user-friendly and offers various techniques, insights, and exercises created to connect emergent readers and writers to their ever expanding worlds of literature. The Masters of the Nine Gates, as a supplementary text-manual, provides an over-all view of the obstacles and opponents that inner-city students encounter in their educational arenas. The text helps them to overcome these hurdles and gain grea...
Banning Black Gods
Banning Black Gods is a global examination of the legal challenges faced by adherents of the most widely practiced African-derived religions in the twenty-first century, including Santeria/Lucumi, Haitian Vodou, Candomblé, Palo Mayombe, Umbanda, Islam, Rastafari, Obeah, and Voodoo. Examining court cases, laws, human rights reports, and related materials, Danielle N. Boaz argues that restrictions on African diaspora religious freedom constitute a unique and pervasive form of anti-Black discrimination. Emphasizing that these twenty-first-century cases and controversies are not a new phenomenon but rather a reemergence of colonial-era ideologies and patterns of racially motivated persecution, ...
Ojise
Ojise: Messenger of the Yoruba Tradition is a journal of the day-to-day activities and rituals that Karade encountered in his quest for priesthood in the Yoruba religion. Embedded in this journal are the very emotions, ideas and changes in his psyche-and the healing of soul - that occured on this journey. Karade explains the significance of the spiritual pilgrimage for people of all faiths.
Santeria
A guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of a religious tradition that, despite persecution, suppression, and its own secretive nature, has close to a million adherents in the United States alone. Santería is a religion with Afro-Cuban roots, rising out of the cultural clash between the Yoruba people of West Africa and the Spanish Catholics who brought them to the Americas as slaves. With the exile of thousands of Cubans after Castro's revolution in 1959, Santería came to the United States, where it is gradually coming to be recognized as a legitimate faith tradition, one about which most people in America's mainstream know very little. De La Torre explains the worldview, myths, rituals, and history of Santería, and discusses what role the religion typically plays in the life of its practitioners as well as the cultural influence it continues to exert in Latin American communities today.--From publisher description.
IWAKERI: the Quest for Afrikan Spirituality by Awotunde Yao Zannu Faseyin
An exciting and refreshing new look at ancient Afrikan spirituality by young Vodunsi (West Afrikan Vodun initiate) Awotunde Zannu Faseyin Agbosi. This book is unique in it takes its reader through a pscho-spiritual initiatic process whereas one is taken from the psychological and historical circucmstances of Afrikans and their place in world religious history right into the esoteric and very valuable practical concepts of Vodun/Ifa. The author rightly notes that no respected people are a people who worship the gods of others. Iwakeri is concerned with guiding the Afrikan soul on its journey from Eurocentric religious thought in an attenpt to provide a smoother transition into being whole; to be Afrikan. Finally, Iwakeri is a much needed answer to the question of how do we approach the esoteric from an Afrikan, yet practical way. The preview below is the introduction to Iwakeri: The Quest for Afrikan Spirituality.
