One Blessed Yaya

One Blessed Yaya
Author: Pickled Pepper Press
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2018-12-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781790775385

A blank lined journal for mothers and grandmothers to write their favorite recipes, daily thoughts or craft ideas. 100 Pages/50 Sheets Classic size: 7.44" x 9.69" -- Glossy Softcover Paperback

YaYa!

YaYa!
Author: Claudia Barker
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1996
Genre: African American art
ISBN: 0807120928

Young Aspirations/Young Artists (YA/YA), Inc., is the phenomenal New Orleans nonprofit arts organization started by the painter Jana Napoli in 1988. It is part school, part community center, part gallery, part working studio. But it is the commercial-art students - primarily African Americans - from nearby L. E. Rabouin Career Magnet High School in the city's central business district who breathe life into that entity. They are the YA/YAs. The YA/YAs came to the attention of the outside world through their painted chairs. Napoli first had them depict their dreams and fears on secondhand furniture and then arranged an exhibit at Lincoln Center in New York. It was a success that launched the young artists into an upward spiral of fame. In YA/YA! - a combination history, collective memoir, and guidebook - former YA/YA director Claudia Barker conveys with infectious enthusiasm the hip, happening creativity that thrives at YA/YA. She follows the trajectory of eight original YA/YAs from their early doubts and trials to their triumphal status as senior Guild members and mentors to succeeding YA/YA "generations". The group's spirit is mirrored in the book's free-form design: comments from staff and students, including deeply felt statements about their ideas and work, and scores of color photographs approximating the visual impact of the YA/YAs' art combine with Barker's own reflective narrative. By reviewing the path that YA/YA has traveled in raising funds, getting publicity, defining its purpose, and striving for harmony, she outlines a model for similar programs in other communities.

One Blessed Yaya (6x9 Journal)

One Blessed Yaya (6x9 Journal)
Author: Perky Bird Journals Staff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2017-11-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781981227433

Let your yaya know how awesome she is! A beautiful, bright & bold, striped, fun & personalized notebook. Makes a great Mother's Day, Grandparent's Day, Christmas, Hanukkah, birthday, or any day gift. Perfect for taking notes, jotting lists, doodling, brainstorming, prayer and meditation journaling, writing in as a diary, or giving as a gift. Not too thick & not too thin, so it's a great size to throw in your purse or bag! SIZE: 6 X 9 PAPER: Lightly Lined on White Paper PAGES: 120 Pages (60 Sheets Front/Back) COVER: Soft Cover (Matte)

Yaya's Story

Yaya's Story
Author: Paul Stoller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2014-10-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 022617896X

Yaya’s Story is a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America. It is also a book about Paul Stoller—its author—an American anthropologist who found his own path to Africa. Separated by ethnicity, language, profession, and culture, these two men’s lives couldn’t be more different. But when they were both threatened by a grave illness—cancer—those differences evaporated, and the two were brought to profound existential convergence, a deep camaraderie in the face of the most harrowing of circumstances. Yaya’s Story is that story. Harouna and Stoller would meet in Harlem, at a bustling African market where Harouna built a life as an African art trader and Stoller was conducting research. Moving from Belayara in Niger to Silver Spring, Maryland, and from the Peace Corps to fieldwork to New York, Stoller recounts their separate lives and how the threat posed by cancer brought them a new, profound, and shared sense of meaning. Combining memoir, ethnography, and philosophy through a series of interconnected narratives, he tells a story of remarkable friendship and the quest for well-being. It’s a story of difference and unity, of illness and health, a lyrical reflection on human resiliency and the shoulders we lean on.

The Number One Princess

The Number One Princess
Author: Robert Davis
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2009-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1438996047

Her mother, while loving and caring to her children, was the ruthless and cunning, Hayee Hellcat, Queen Ramala. Queen Ramala, with the help of her Butchers, took over of tribal lands, forming her own kingdom, called the House of Ra. Her father, the Butcher Dan the Destroyer, was the womanizing Heathen King of Ra. The King won battles for his Queen, while always finding time for his own personal adventures. Named after her mother, the Ra, Ramala was the first born girl to the King and Queen of Ra. She, along with her sibling, were taught and trained by her mother in survival techniques, as well as Ruling protocol. This was done to insure their survival, in a time of tribal warfare, when most everyone would do whatever it took to become the next Ruling clan. Little Ramala loved the way her mother ordered people around and wanted to do the same. Having to live with some of the most unruly sibling, in the history of siblings, Little Ramala used ruling protocol to help her deal with them. After getting positive results, she quickly used ruling protocol on maids, servants and anyone else she could. Little Ramala was a daddy's girl and was spoiled by her father. Every little girl is a princess in her father's eyes. Living and growing up in a warring society, where she witnessed treachery, deceit, murder and mayhem, young Ramala quickly learned the ways of the world. Using the motley crew of her siblings, along with everything she learned from her mother, young Ramala decided to let everyone know that, after what they did for their Queen, they were expected to do what she wanted, after that. Everyone quickly learned, until she became Queen, she was the Number One Princess.

I Give You Half the Road

I Give You Half the Road
Author: Carol Spindel
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0299330508

In Ivory Coast, the farewell “I give you half the road” is an expression of hospitality, urging a departing guest to come back again. After their first stay in a welcoming rural community in 1981, Carol Spindel and her husband did just that. Over the course of decades, they built a house and returned frequently, deepening their relationships with neighbors. Once considered the most stable country in West Africa, Ivory Coast was split by an armed rebellion in 2002 and endured a decade of instability and a violent conflict. Spindel provides an intimate glimpse into this turbulent period by weaving together the daily lives and paths of five neighbors. Their stories reveal Ivorians determined to reunite a divided country through reliance on mutual respect and obligation even while power-hungry politicians pursued xenophobic and anti-immigrant platforms for personal gain. Illuminating democracy as a fragile enterprise that must be continually invented and reinvented, I Give You Half the Road emphasizes the importance of connection, generosity, and forgiveness.

Young Blood Omnibus Volume One

Young Blood Omnibus Volume One
Author: Jorge V. Aruta
Publisher: Inquirer Books
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2020-10-23
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 971893538X

Since 1994, the ground-breaking Young Blood column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Opinion section, giving voice to the love and loss, the highs and lows, the victories and disappointments of Filipino twentysomethings and younger. It has become required reading for the youth and a rite of passage for the aspiring young writer. Since then, the best of the Young Blood essays has been collected in anthologies; the Young Blood books are now in its 7th incarnation. Now, the out-of-print first three volumes of that series, 1998’s The Best of Youngblood, 2000’s Youngblood 2.0 and 2006’s Youngblood3 have been collected exclusively in a single electronic volume with more than 800 pages. The essays in Young Blood Omnibus Volume One gather the experiences of young people in the Philippines but are also universal for young people anywhere in just how authentic, personal and well-written they are.

Diary Of A Single Mothe

Diary Of A Single Mothe
Author: Mairo Mudi
Publisher: Exceller Books
Total Pages: 103
Release:
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

‘Diary Of A Single Mother’ is a story of a submissive wife who woke up to be greeted with a divorce that cannot be reversed. He sent her away with their three kids. With no work or skill, she is left to struggle it out as she lost her parents, and all her relatives turn their backs against her - as an act of revenge for disconnecting with them according to the instructions of her husband. She has only Aisha as a friend who tries to pull her out of this misery she finds herself in.