Book Description
This book contains the most fascinating revelations ever made about the Bible and the people of the Bible in the past two thousand years. Did you know that Jews originated from black African tribes? Did you know that Jesus and the people of the Bible were black people? Did you know that the names of authors of the Old Testament are African tribal names? Did you know that modern Jews still carry tribal names. Did you know that the word Israel is an African word? These are some of the ancient secrets this book reveals to readers.
Customer Reviews:
Just because it isn't European doesn't mean that it's African.......2007-10-12
The Bible's origins (for the most part) comes from the Middle East, primarily Asia Minor. If you take the text LITERALLY, you recognize that the Israelites (the word "Jews" literally means someone from the Tribe of Judah) were a Semitic people of Syrian origins. The Bible also makes it clear that some of the narrative takes place in Egypt as well. It is mainly a tale involving people of color. But the people of color are brown, not black.
I do not doubt the universality of the stories. Many similar tales come from Mesopotamian literature as well as the Greek myths. And given that Adam and Eve came FAR more likely from Kenya that Iraq, close ties to parts of Africa are inevitable. But I find a hard time buying the book's central premise.
I feel empowered!.......2007-08-27
I just got through kissing the book, and I'm, only, in the Introduction!!!!
I've skimmed through it, and I'm just starting to read it, in depth. Dr. Darkwah's book is awe-inspiring. If you're black and you never got into the Bible, it makes you want to study the Bible. I've spent many a night skimming the book and checking references, in the Bible. I love this book. I'm going to let everyone, in my family, read this book. One of the gems of the book is the fact that it lists out such things, as the physical description of Jesus Christ. I knew, from an earlier Bible, that Jesus "skin was like onyx and his hair was wooly" but, like Dr. Darkwah points out, those descriptions have been changed by people who aren't black for Revised editions, of the Bible. The book makes you think. For instance, Eden, on Earth, is literally, in Africa. The description of the rivers of Eden describe the Tigris, Euphrates, and the Nile Rivers, all in Africa. We know from the Lucy skeleton and genetic studies that the first man on Earth was born in Africa. It's just amazing that it's confirmed, in the Bible. That's just one gem from the book. There are many others. I'm so excited. Thank you Dr. Darkwah.
Revealing.......2007-08-03
This is a fantastic account of facts and an eye opener.It is a comprehensive thesis revealing who really wrote the Bible. It should be a must read for all those who seek the truth.
One of the best books ever published!.......2007-05-20
This is a very powerful, wonderful book. I give nothing but applause to the author. The book is well written and very informative. (I only wish the author would not repeat himself so much. This becomes very annoying) However, despite that minor distraction, the information is essential and should be considered required reading for every man, woman, child, boy, muslim, jew and christian in America.
The book for a new history.......2007-03-10
A new view of the bible. The old African History together with the ole Hebrew History.Relate with the old Jewish people in Estonia, you will know why the author wrote this book. Very good for understanding the bitle, the greatest scripture in the world.
Book Description
Gathered here is a beguiling selection of folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana as retold by the best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. This treasury contains most of the stories previously collected in Children of Wax and seven new tales from the Setswana-speaking people of Botswana.
A girl discovers that her young husband might actually be a lion in disguise, but not before they have two sons who might actually be cubs . . . When a child made of wax follows his curiosity outside into the heat of daylight and melts, his siblings shape him into a bird with feathers made of leaves that enable him to fly into the light . . . Talking hyenas, milk-giving birds, clever cannibals who nonetheless get their comeuppance, and mysterious forces that reside in the landscape—these wonderful fables bring us the wealth, the variety, and the particular magic of traditional African lore.
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For folktale lovers only.......2006-11-04
I love "The number one detective agency" series, and hoped for the same writing quality in this collection of folk tales. Unfortunately there was no narrative flow, making the stories stilted and un-interesting. Maybe a narrative explaining the lessons would have helped.
I suggest this book only for those interested in collecting african fables
...and?.......2006-05-09
I don't get it. These are stories that give us a glimpse into African culture, where "fat" is healthy, and watering holes are sources of life.
Some of the stories were like Brier Rabbit, adn were clever. But, unlike Western stories, I really wasn't sure what the moral of the stories were. Take the girl who married a lion. The brother thinks "It IS a lion," then he chases it away. And, here's the riviting part...(don't read this if you don't want the ending spoiled)...the children end up NOT being lions!
That's it.
End of story.
I just don't get it. I LOVE A-M-S's other books, they are brilliant. This one just doesn't do it for me.
Disappointing.......2006-04-06
I have read and enjoyed all the volumes involving the "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency." This was a book I eagerly anticipated, but found very disappointing. The stories seem to be simply retellings of very simple, but ambiguous, themes. It didn't have anything which stuck with me (except a quizzical expression on my face, I guess).
Thirty-three simply told African folktales; some will inspire, some will puzzle, some will just make you smile........2006-03-20
This is a delightful collection of folktales of Botswana and Zimbabwe re-told by that extraordinary Scottish author, Alexander McCall Smith. Smith was born in Zimbabwe and spent many years on the African continent and even taught law at the University of Botswana. (Botswana is the home of that wise and traditionally-built lady detective, Mme Precious Ramotswe. Mme Ramotswe was kind enough to write a letter about the book that is included at the beginning of this set of tales.)
Smith states that he has taken certain liberties in the telling of these tales to make them more appealing to a broader readership. Animals and people are somewhat interchangeable in African lore and that is apparent in these stories. Examples of the titles are: Guinea Fowl Child; Sister of Bones; Children of Wax; The Girl Who Married a Lion; Two Bad Friends. Most of the stories have a lesson, although some are a little obtuse. Some of the stories bear some similarities to folktales of other lands; universal truths, as it were.
One of my favorites is Sister of Bones; another is Why Elephant and Hyena Live Far From People; another, Two Friends Who Met for Dinner (love this one!). This book is a good one to leave close at hand for a quick read or re-read of a favorite story. The stories range in number of pages from three or four to eight or nine, and are very easy to read. Some might be a little scary for youngsters, but, then, so are the Brothers Grimm, and Bambi.
Carolyn Rowe Hill
tales to cherish a lifetime.......2005-11-23
the tales in this book are ones to be passed on for many more generations and learned from and cherished
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Ecotourism is defined as "responsible travel to natural areas which conserves the environment and improves the welfare of local people." Many see it as a panacea for developing nations-a source of clean development that can bring wealth to rural communities while simultaneously helping to preserve pristine environments. But has the reality lived up to the promise? And is that even possible.
In Ecotourism and Sustainable Development, Martha Honey presents an overview of the ecotourism industry and a first-hand account of ecotourism projects around the world. Based on interviews and visits to ecotourist hotspots in Latin America and Africa, she offers a vivid description and analysis of projects that meet the goals and standards of ecotourism as well as those that claim to be ecotourism but in reality fall short. She presents in-depth case studies of seven destinations (Galapagos, Costa Rica, Cuba, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa) that serve to illustrate the real world of ecotourism. For each, she offers an ecotourism scorecard, grading it on its adherence to the enumerated principles of ecotourism and sustainable development.
Honey addresses topics such as the evolution and principles of ecotourism, where profits go, and the mechanics and politics of the tourist industry as a whole. The case studies highlight the economic and cultural impacts of tourism development on indigenous populations as well as on ecosystems. Honey also surveys current thinking and policies of environmental groups, and looks at how political situations, human rights records, and natural resource management influence travel decisions.
Ecotourism and Sustainable Development provides a unique and compelling look at the promise and pitfalls of ecotourism. It is the only such account of worldwide ecotourism available today, and is an important guide for students and researchers involved with international development, geography, or tourism, as well as for anyone interested in becoming a more environmentally sensitive traveller.
Customer Reviews:
good buy, long wait.......2005-09-27
The book was in great condition and I saved a lot of money. However, it took almost a week to get my shipment, even though I paid for express delivery.
Not so good.......2004-04-11
Disappointing tome with numerous factual mistakes and a lack of understanding of those the author is interviewing. The book is far too dependent on paper sources and fairly clueless on the ground.
First-hand account of ecotourism projects around the world.......2002-04-07
Martha Honey argues that the responsibility of ecotourism operators stretches far beyond their physical impact on the land. She argues that real ecotourism must involve seven vital and interrelated characteristics: travel to nature destinations; minimizing negative environmental impact; building environmental awareness; direct financial benefits for conservation; financial benefits and empowerment for local people; the respect of local culture; and the support of human rights and democracy. Her book is an excellent account of worldwide ecotourism.
Snoozer.......2001-03-14
I cannot believe I paid money for this book. We need information about ecotourism, particularly in the developing world. But the author shows no first-hand knowledge. She includes a lot of reports and obviously attends many policy meetings. But outside of the classroom, I do not think this book is of much use.
Ecotourism the inside perspective.......2000-02-10
I found Martha Honey's book to be thought provoking and informative. During the Fall semester of 2000 I plan to incorporate this text into my tourism studies course. The author successfully addresses the truths and myths surrounding the latest buzz in travel "ecotourism" and brings it together with real-world nation studies topics. I strongly recommend this book for anyone wanting to examine this topic to the fullest.
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The first "behind-the-scenes" history of FDR's secret mission to invade North Africa.
Customer Reviews:
WWII history.......2007-02-18
Read this if you want to know what US schools do not teach about the real history of WWII. Fascinating.
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One of our very favorites.......2006-12-08
We found this by chance at the library and it is now one of our favorite books. During the three weeks we had the book we read it over 20 times and looked through it often. And we've checked it out a few times since then, too. Hmm, maybe we should buy it!
My boys have acted out the story repeatedly and I hear them quietly reciting the story to themselves.
The pictures are fantastic - bright, beautiful, so full of life. The text is superb and has a wonderful moral as well.
You will love this book and so will your kids.
great story.......2006-09-25
my 5 year old son loves this story and its surprise ending!
the play within a story framework is very clever but may be too complicated for very young children to follow
mjdykstra
mother & book lover
Nice story.......2005-11-30
I love this story. My children enjoy it. Its great for children at bedtime. It is actually a play....thats how the story is being told.
Must add to your library of African tales!!
A book for all ages.......2005-09-20
Who's in Rabbits House is one of those few book that people of all ages can enjoy. The book is beautiful to look at, the illustrations informative and clever. (Check out the lions.) It reads aloud beautifully, and even the youngest reader can be given a part to become part of the experience. The cultural contect is respectfully presented. The reader becomes one who learn that of the Masai vilagers that strength is less important than intelligence.
Knock knock. Who's there? Caterpillar........2005-09-13
Let's play a free association game. I'll say a word and you tell me the first thing that pops into your brain. Ready? Okay, here it goes... FROG. What'd you come up with? Probably something like "green" or "warty" or "ribbit". If you were feeling particularly creative you may have said "kiss" or "Kermit" or "delicious". It's safe to say that one word that did not enter your brain was "gleeful". "Tricky" also didn't make the cut, I'm certain and "smart-alecky" was probably farthest from your mind. Yet after reading Verna Aardema's remarkable, "Who's In Rabbit's House", these were the words I derived after a single reading. It's a remarkable story, and if nothing else, this is one book that'll give its child readers a whole new appreciation of froggy-kind.
What we have here is a play within a play. In this book, a group of Masai actors don animal masks and prepare for a performance of some kind. At first, we see them getting ready and we view their audience as well. Once the play starts a small prologue at the beginning of the book puts it best when it says that, "the perspective shifts and he reader becomes the real audience to this unique performance". Better still, the animal masks take on a new life of their own, showing all sorts of emotions that they would not have displayed otherwise. The story may be a familiar one to you. This particular version comes from the Masai tale, "The Long One" found in author Aardema's collection, "Tales For the Third Ear From Equatorial Africa". In the tale, a rabbit leaves its home and then comes back to find it locked up. Inside, a voice roars that it is The Long One, that it can eat trees, and that it is particularly skillful at trampling elephants. Rabbit attempts to get help for the problem, but rejects Frog's offer right from the start. This frees up Frog to linger, watch the action, and laugh at the many failed attempts to roust The Long One. Jackal, Leopard, Elephant, and Rhinoceros all have solutions, but these tend to consist of destroying Rabbit's home. Finally, Frog returns with a clever ploy and scares The Long One (now shown to be merely a boastful caterpillar) out of the house. Everyone has a good laugh, but none so heartily as Frog.
The combination of Aardema's talented storytelling alongside the artwork of illustrator-gods Leo and Diane Dillon was a match made in heaven. To this day I don't know why this book isn't better known. It has all the elements of a great tale. First of all, Aardema has (according to a small note on the publication page) "combined repetition of key phrases with authentic African ideophones to produce a rhythmic read-aloud text which preserves the essential flavor of an African tale". Maybe so. All I know is that there's a wonderful sense of rising and falling action in this tale. Aardema is good at bringing the tension to a climax in which Frog reveals the villain to be nothing more than a tiny creature. The Dillons, for their part, engage in a kind of artwork completely different from later books like "The People Could Fly" or even "Rap A Tap Tap". The Masai characters are mere outlines, with beautifully detailed jewelry and faces that evoke a feeling of masks. Their masks, on the other hand, are sometimes cartoonish but always eye-catching. They express emotions in a fantastical way that no real mask could ever do. As a result, Frog has this perpetually amused expression on her face while Rabbit looks put-out most of the time.
If you want the logical companion to this book, you must seek out storyteller Luann Adams' "The Tricky Caterpillar and Other Tales" CD. Adams brings the title tale, very similar to this one, to shocking and riveting life. You could do far worse that to accompany your storytelling with a smattering of Adams' accomplished voice. Also, if you find that your child readers are intrigued by Masai culture and wisdom, consider reading aloud to them some selections from the beautifully written, "Our Secret, Siri Aang" by Cristina Kessler. All in all, these will bring "Who's In Rabbit's House" a little more background and a little more color. This book stands beautifully on its own, I should note. A must-have for any child's personal library.
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The Anglo Zulu War continues to attract phenomenal interest. What was meant to be a quick punitive expedition led by Lord Chelmsford turned into a watershed for British Colonial power. The ignominious defeat at Iswandhlwana was a terrible blow to British military pride but the heroic stand at Rourke's Drift, while a minor event by comparison, allowed the powers-that-be to salvage some honor. This authoritative book covers all the main players, be they military, political or civilian, with concise yet readable individual entries. In addition to the military commanders on both sides, we have the VC winners, those at Rourke's Drift and survivors of the massacre. Individuals such as The Crown Prince Imperial whose actions made an impact all have entries. REVIEWS "...it includes all the major figures, movers and shakers who shaped this conflict." H Berry The Midwest Book Review 7-07
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noted figures and their exploits in the South African Zulu War.......2007-05-02
The authors, recognized authorities in England and South Africa on the Zulu War of 1879, allow that although this work is not comprehensive, it includes "all of the major figures, movers and shakers who shaped the conflict" along with many others they found particularly interesting for one reason or another. Seventy-four military figures are taken chronologically with short biographical profiles, noting of their significance in the Zulu War, and vignettes of military actions they were involved in. The massacre of over 1300 British at Isandlwana and the defense of an outpost at Rorke's Drift by about 150 British against thousands of Zulu warriors figure in many of the profiles. Many of the profiles contain too material on lesser-known encounters and the nature of the Zulu War. "On March 28, elements of Wood's command assaulted the Zulu stronghold at Hlobane Mountain." In taking the stronghold, the British encountered "Zulu snipers concealed among the boulders at the foot of the cliffs which surrounded the summit." Besides the traditional spears and shields, some of the Zulus had outdated rifles sold to them by Europeans. The 20-page introductory chapter is an especially good summary of the Zulu War.
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Gathered here is a beguiling selection of folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana as retold by the best–selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. This treasury contains most of the stories previously collected in Children of Wax and seven new tales from the Setswana–speaking people of Botswana.
A girl discovers that her young husband might actually be a lion in disguise, but not before they have two sons who might actually be cubs… When a child made of wax follows his curiosity outside into the heat of daylight and melts, his siblings shape him into a bird with feathers made of leaves that enable him to fly into the light…Talking hyenas, milk–giving birds, clever cannibals who nonetheless get their comeuppance, and mysterious forces that reside in the landscape—these wonderful fables bring us the wealth, the variety, and the particular magic of traditional African lore.
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Great to Read aloud.......2000-06-25
Little monkey, who lives in Africa, is pursued by several animals that also live there and one who doesn't. In his attempts to get away from his pursuers, Little Monkey has to run up, down, over, under, in, and out. He finally gets a rest when he realizes that his last pursuer, the tiger, doesn't live in Africa. This book introduces children to the concept that there are other places in the world and that different things live in different places. It also teaches them about opposites. This book is very charming and engaging. My two-year daughter loved it immediately and had me read it again and again. She now loves to read it on her own--to turn the pages to see "who is coming" to get Little Monkey and to tell the monkey to run. The illustrations are also engaging. A new classic for our house!
Great to Read aloud.......2000-06-25
Little monkey, who lives in Africa, is pursued by several animals that also live there and one who doesn't. In his attempts to get away from his pursuers, Little Monkey has to run up, down, over, under, in, and out. He finally gets a rest when he realizes that his last pursuer, the tiger, doesn't live in Africa. This book introduces children to the concept that there are other places in the world and that different things live in different places. It also teaches them about opposites. This book is very charming and engaging. My two-year daughter loved it immediately and had me read it again and again. She now loves to read it on her own--to turn the pages to see "who is coming" to get Little Monkey and to tell the monkey to run. The illustrations are also engaging. A new classic for our house!
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A decade after the fall of apartheid, South Africa is attempting to rebuild itself as a safe, just and democratic society. But an exponential rise in property theft threatens to derail that future. In People Who Have Stolen From Me, journalist David Cohen looks at his native country through the microcosm of Jules Street, at once the longest straight street in Johannesburg and a rambunctious thoroughfare on which crooked men thrive. On Jules Street, Cohen tracks the tragicomic fortunes of two charismatic businessmen and their colorful coterie of employees, who include former carjackers. The furniture store owned by Harry Sher and Jack Rubin is caught in the middle of an undeclared war: they are raided, robbed and defrauded by gangs of criminals, customers, even some of their own trusted employees. The descendants of Jewish immigrants who came from Eastern Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, Harry and Jack welcome the new democracy but must deploy all their humor, cunning, and salesmen's instincts to counter the criminals who threaten their business and sometimes their lives.Spending time with the perpetrators as well as the victims, both white and black, Cohen reveals as never before the hidden psychology of the new South Africa. Some say they merely steal material goods, while the system of apartheid has robbed them of their future. If you steal something from someone who has stolen from you, they ask, is that crime? Or is that justice? People Who Have Stolen From Me is the dramatic but true story of life at the sharp end in a country at the crossroads. It is also a hilarious and universal tale about conscience, betrayal and trust.
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Excellent work.......2005-08-03
This is an incredible book that beats the pants off of so much of what is considered good writing. Compelling, funny, you can't put it down. There is something here for everyone.
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