annelisreadingroom · 8 months ago
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Good evening. How is your week going? Have you read anything from Chinua Achebe? I have read the first book in the African Trilogy.
I'm currently on my way to visit a friend who moved here from China. She promised to cook Chinese food for me. 😋
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gildedbearediting · 4 months ago
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Short Story Day (Africa)
Celebrating the Day June 21 is a day to celebrate diversity in writing, and authors across Africa. The people who write about what it’s really like in Africa, and speak on the issues faced by the African people. In the past, authors didn’t capture Africa as it was, and it can be hard to shake long-lived stereotypes and old narrow perspectives. I’ve seen it even now as African Social Media…
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unvieilesprit · 5 months ago
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(5/23/24)
Long time, no post. I spent some time in a cafe in Florida and thought this photo was Tumblr worthy.
Behold the Dreamers is about a Cameroonian family immigrating to New York City around 2008 before the Great Recession. It also profiles the family of the father’s employer since their lives are so intertwined. I’m halfway through it but really enjoy it!
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ya-world-challenge · 7 months ago
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I secretly rolled the randomizer a couple weeks ago so I could put something on my up-next list, and the result was:
Rwanda
So I've picked out Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
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rachel-sylvan-author · 8 months ago
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"The Girl with the Louding Voice" by Abi Dare
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livelyvivian · 10 months ago
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theafropolitandiaries · 1 year ago
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southernmermaidsgrotto · 2 years ago
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Hoodoo, Rootwork and Conjure sources by Black Authors
Because you should only ever be learning your ancestral ways from kinfolk. Here's a compilation of some books, videos and podcast episodes I recommend reading and listening to, on customs, traditions, folk tales, songs, spirits and history. As always, use your own critical thinking and spiritual discernment when approaching these sources as with any others.
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Hoodoo in America by Zora Neale Hurston (1931)
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston (1936)
Tell my horse by Zora Neale Hurston (1938)
Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, editors (2003)
Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition by Yvonne P. Chireau (2006)
African American Folk Healing by Stephanie Mitchem (2007)
Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies by Faith Mitchell (2011)
Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System by Katrina Hazzard-Donald (2012)
Rootwork: Using the Folk Magick of Black America for Love, Money and Success by Tayannah Lee McQuillar (2012)
Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory among Gullah/Geechee Women by LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant (2014)
Working the Roots: Over 400 Years Of Traditional African American Healing by Michele Elizabeth Lee (2017)
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston (2018)
Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals by Luisa Teish (2021)
African American Herbalism: A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions by Lucretia VanDyke (2022)
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These are just some suggestions but there's many many more!! This is by no means a complete list.
I recommend to avoid authors who downplay the importance of black history or straight out deny how blackness is central to hoodoo. The magic, power and ashé is in the culture and bloodline. You can't separate it from the people. I also recommend avoiding or at the very least taking with a huge grain of salt authors with ties to known appropriators and marketeers, and anyone who propagates revisionist history or rather denies historical facts and spreads harmful conspiracy theories. Sadly, that includes some black authors, particularly those who learnt from, and even praise, white appropriators undermining hoodoo and other african and african diasporic traditions. Be careful who you get your information from. Keeping things traditional means honoring real history and truth.
Let me also give you a last but very important reminder: the best teachings you'll ever get are going to come from the mouths of your own blood. Not a book or anything on the internet. They may choose to put certain people and things in your path to help you or point you in the right direction, but each lineage is different and you have to honor your own. Talk to your family members, to the Elders in your community, learn your genealogy, divine before moving forwards, talk to your dead, acknowledge your people and they'll acknowledge you and guide you to where you need to be.
May this be of service and may your ancestors and spirits bless you and yours 🕯️💀
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yaehonia · 1 year ago
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Hello❤️
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fjordfolk · 1 month ago
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My two greatest character flaws are that I'm cranky and lazy.
My third greatest character flaw is the acute lack of compassion for people who smuggle exotic animals (like a serval) into a country where they are illegal (like norway) because keeping one as a pet is 'their dream' and then throw a pity party when said animal is seized and at risk of euthanasia. I'm sorry pal but you did that.
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revindicatedbyhistory · 5 months ago
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historian seeing an ancient society that had a strong burecracy and state: YOOO THIS WAS COMMUNISM
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rachel-sylvan-author · 9 months ago
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"The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide" by Nice Leng'ete
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livelyvivian · 1 year ago
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gennsoup · 5 months ago
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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leyllethecreator · 6 months ago
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Writing Tip #1: never underestimate the power of ugliness
Never underestimate the power of ugliness.
Uglying up your prose can be just as powerful as prettying it up.
Using words like bleeding, vomiting, to describe basic actions like water running out of a faucet can add a sense of violence or agony to a scene:
"Plunging his hands into the ice cold water vomiting from the sink..."
"Plunging his hands into the ice cold water bleeding from the sink..."
Using very ugly imagery to describe normal things can also work well in tandem with using prettied up (especially when it's exaggeratedly so) imagery for ugly things.
"Plunging his hands into the ice cold water vomiting from the sink, he wipes the last delicate dribbles of golden bile from his lower lip"
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ukdamo · 30 days ago
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Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the Chicago writer's mural: James Baldwin
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