African intellectual heritage : a book of sources /
This comprehensive volume brings together documents from the intellectual history of Africa and the diaspora, including works by ancient, anonymous writers whose texts were originally written on stone and papyri and well-known public figures of more recent times. Authors represented include James We...
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Asante concept of the creation of the lesser gods / James Weldon Johnson
- The Creation / Nefer-rohu
- The Prophecy / Paheri
- Tomb Prayers / Selections from the Papyrus of Ani.
- Akhenaten
- Hymns to Aten / Penitential Hymns / Selections from the Book of Henok (Enoch) / Jomo Kenyatta
- Religion and Ancestor Veneration / Asante Praise poems to Tano River and the Earth.
- Abu Shardow Abarry
- Recurrent themes in Ga Libation (Mpai) Oratory / Igbo Invocations / Wande Abimbola
- Wapele: the concept of good character in Ifa Literary Corpus / Mensah Sarbah
- Akan Religion / Yoruba Praises to Ogun.
