Readers catch a rare glimpse of West African spirituality in "The Way of the Elders," co-authored by a West African native raised in the Mande tradition. This spiritual guidebook explores offerings, charms, herbal healing, shamans, the importance of wildlife, and the four elements of nature.
Readers catch a rare glimpse of West African spirituality in "The Way of the Elders," co-authored by a West African native raised in the Mande tradition. This spiritual guidebook explores offerings, charms, herbal healing, shamans, the importance of wildlife, and the four elements of nature.
In this, Jansen's most personal and intimate book to date, South Africa's beloved Professor contemplates the stereotypes and stigma so readily applied to Cape Flats mothers as bawdy, lusty and gap-toothed - and offers this endearing antidote as a praise song to mothers everywhere who raise families and build communities in difficult places. As a young man, Jansen questioned how mothers managed to raise children in trying circumstances - and then realised that the answer was right in front of him in the form of Sarah Jansen, his own mother. Tracing her early life in Montagu and the consequences of apartheid's forced removals, Jansen unpacks how strong women managed to not only keep families together, but raise them with integrity. With his trademark delicacy, humour and frankness, Jansen follows his mother's life story as a young nurse and mother to five children, and shows how mothers dealt with their pasts, organised their homes, made sense of politics, managed affection, communicated core values - how they led their lives. As a balance to his own recollections, Jansen has called on his sister, Naomi, to offer her own insights and memories, adding special value to this touching personal memoir."--Publisher's description.
A young lady called Faith ran away from her country to avoid embarrassment after the disappearance of her fiance on their wedding day. When she was in Kenya, after being abused by one of the family members where she worked as a nanny and maid, she had no choice but to live in the Kibera slum. During this horrible time, Faith didn't stop trusting God and kept chasing her dream of being a journalist because she believed, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger." Faith was able to resurrect her life when she got a job as the program producer with an organization in Kenya that was dealing with poverty eradication in East Africa. It was at this time that her family in Tanzania finally came to know that she was still alive. In her career, she came across a lot of men but she refused to court anyone until she took the engagement ring back to the man who vanished in thin air on her wedding day.
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