Welcome Dede

Welcome Dede
Author: Ifeoma Onyefulu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2004-09-01
Genre: Birth customs
ISBN: 9780711220492

Child Education says, "Ifeoma Onyefulu's photographic books ... are always full of the vibrant joy of African culture." Here sensitive, first-person text gives children a new perspective on birth and naming customs.

Welcome Dede!

Welcome Dede!
Author: Ifeoma Onyefulu
Publisher: Lincoln Children's Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-11-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781845073114

Seen through the eyes of a young boy, Amarlai, this is a beautiful depiction of the customs surrounding a traditional Ghanaian naming ceremony.

Little Free Libraries & Tiny Sheds

Little Free Libraries & Tiny Sheds
Author: Philip Schmidt
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0760358125

Expand the sharing movement to your community with Little Free Libraries and Tiny Sheds—your complete source for building tiny sharing structures, including plans for 12 different structures, step-by-step photography and instructions, inspirational examples, and maintenance. Around the world, a community movement is underway featuring quaint landscape structures mounted on posts in front yards and other green spaces. Some are built for personal use, as miniature sheds for gardeners or as decorative accent pieces. More commonly, though, they are evidence of the growing trend toward neighborhood organization and community outreach. This movement has been popularized by Wisconsin-based Little Free Library (LFL), whose members currently include 75,000 stewards seeking to build community togetherness and promote reading at the same time by sharing books among neighbors. LFL has inspired builders to use similar structures to share things like CDs, food, garden tools, and seeds in the community. Produced in cooperation with Little Free Library, Little Free Libraries and Tiny Sheds is the builder's complete source of inspiration and how-to knowledge. Illustrated throughout with colorful step-by-step photography and a gallery of tiny structures for further inspiration, Little Free Libraries and Tiny Sheds covers every step: planning and design, tools and building techniques, best materials, and 12 complete plans for structures of varying size and aesthetics. In addition, author and professional carpenter Phil Schmidt includes information on proper installation of small structures and common repairs and maintenance for down the road. Little Free Libraries and Tiny Sheds even includes information on how to become a steward, getting the word out about your little structure once it's up and running, and tips for building a lively collection. Community togetherness has never been so at the fore of our consciousness—or so important. Little Free Libraries and Tiny Sheds is one tool on the road to helping you build community in your neighborhood.

Wom(b)an: A Cultural-Narrative Reading of the Hebrew Bible Barrenness Narratives

Wom(b)an: A Cultural-Narrative Reading of the Hebrew Bible Barrenness Narratives
Author: Janice P. De-Whyte
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900436630X

In Wom(b)an: A Cultural-Narrative Reading of the Hebrew Bible Barrenness Narratives Janice Pearl Ewurama De-Whyte offers a reading of the Hebrew Bible barrenness narratives. The original word “wom(b)an” visually underscores the centrality of a productive womb to female identity in the ANE and Hebrew contexts. Conversely, barrenness was the ultimate tragedy and shame of a woman. Utilizing Akan cultural custom as a lens through which to read the Hebrew barrenness tradition, De-Whyte uncovers another kind of barrenness within these narratives. Her term “social barrenness” depicts the various situations of childlessness that are generally unrecognized in western cultures due to the western biomedical definitions of infertility. Whether biological or social, barrenness was perceived to be the greatest threat to a woman’s identity and security as well as the continuity of the lineage. Wom(b)an examines these narratives in light of the cultural meanings of barrenness within traditional cultures, ancient and present.

African Roots, Brazilian Rites

African Roots, Brazilian Rites
Author: C. Sterling
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2012-09-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137010002

This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candomblé and Quilombo models, and construct paradigms of blackness with influences from US-based perspectives, through the vectors of public rituals, carnival, drama, poetry, and hip hop.

Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa

Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa
Author: Paul Nugent
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 637
Release: 2019-06-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107020689

By examining three centuries of history, this book shows how vital border regions have been in shaping states and social contracts.

Re-thinking Sexualities in Africa

Re-thinking Sexualities in Africa
Author: Signe Arnfred
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2004
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9789171065131

"This volume sets out to investigate critically existing lines of thought about sexuality in Africa, while also creating space for alternative approaches"--P. [4] of cover.