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Book 1995

Of Water and the Spirit.

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Publisher
Penguin
Published
1995
  • Dagaaba (African people)
  • Biography
  • Shamans
  • Rites and ceremonies
  • Religion
  • Chamanisme
  • Biographies
  • Dagari (peuple d'Afrique)

Malidoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village. He was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he remained for the next fifteen years, being harshly indoctrinated into European ways of thought and worship. The story tells of his return to his people and his hard initiation back into those people, which led to his desire to convey their knowledge to the world. Of Water and the Spirit is the result of that desire; it is a sharing of living African traditions, offered in compassion for those struggling with our contemporary crisis of the spirit.