The Akan House Of Mystery

Author : George B. Streetor
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, LLC
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1625166230

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The Akan House of Mystery by George B. Streetor Pdf

The Akan House of Mystery is a book that explains the nature of the Akan people of Ghana and the Ivory Coast. The Akan are a very determined people who will not be suppressed and will do what they must to achieve their goals. Their reasons for matrilineal inheritance are noted, along with the ramifications. This in-depth book shows why there is the need for continuity of rebirth with women as the wheel of the revolving cycle, as well as the power accorded them, and the need to help them gain the respect due women not only in Akan lands but in all of Africa. It tells how the warrior queen Abena Pokua, the first Asante queen under the Asante confederacy during the reign of Nana Osei Tutu 1 (1680-1717), rebelled and led her people to the present day Ivory Coast after the death of Nana in war. History shows how the Baoule kingdom of Ivory Coast came about, and how Abena Pokua occupied a golden stool from the Comoe river in Ivory Coast, with the Asantehene occupying the golden stool commanded from the sky in Ghana. The book's mysteries delve into the concepts of death, ghosts, God, Satan, witchcraft, and wizards. George B. Streetor was born in Koforidua, Ghana, where the main story takes place. He now lives in Accra, Ghana, and is a therapist who heals without chemicals by using homa therapy. Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/GeorgeBStreetor

Author : A A Milne
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798365868489

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The Red House Mystery (Illustrated) by A A Milne Pdf

The Red House, stately mansion home of Mark Ablett, is filled with very proper guests when Mark's most improper brother returns from Australia. When the maid hears an argument in the study it isn't long before...

Author : A. A. Milne
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1463571097

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The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne Pdf

The Red House Mystery is a "locked room" whodunnit by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel; he is better known for his humorous writing, children's stories, and poems. The Red House Mystery was immediately popular; Alexander Woollcott called it "one of the three best mystery stories of all time", though Raymond Chandler, in his 1944 essay The Simple Art of Murder criticized Woollcott for that claim, referring to him as, "rather a fast man with a superlative". Chandler wrote of Milne's novel, "It is an agreeable book, light, amusing in the Punch style, written with a deceptive smoothness that is not as easy as it looks [...] Yet, however light in texture the story may be, it is offered as a problem of logic and deduction. If it is not that, it is nothing at all. There is nothing else for it to be. If the situation is false, you cannot even accept it as a light novel, for there is no story for the light novel to be about."

Author : A. A. Milne
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1516873513

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The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne Pdf

A.A. Milne was an acclaimed British author who wrote all sorts of children's literature, and today he's best known for Winnie the Pooh.

Author : Carol (Beach) York
Publisher : Coward McCann
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0698202368

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The Tree House Mystery by Carol (Beach) York Pdf

From the day they move to their new house in the country, Roger and Anabelle have a strange feeling about the tree house on their property.

Author : Samuel Asiama
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781664175624

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Ghana's Akan People by Samuel Asiama Pdf

Traditional festivals in Ghana have roots that may be traced to the earliest ancestors we can think of. No wonder almost every ethnic group has its festival. The repository for these festivals is the older folk in our society. What follows below is a treatment of the Ohum festival of the Akyem Abuakwa as recounted by my grandfather Opanyin Owusu-Koranteng, popularly known as Teacher Owusu-Koranteng. It touches on why every year the Ohum festival is celebrated. The aim for writing this account is modest. It is intended to arouse and satisfy the interest of readers to see the VALUE and SIGNIFICANCE of festivals in Ghanaian society, by using the Ohum as a typical one. Special apology however goes for anyone or group of persons who may in one way or the other be offended by this publication. A factual history of Ohum better spelt “Ohunuu-mu” must to the author, be written because of some people’s worship of PREMPESUPREMPEH. This is the Biriem river god, whose shrines are at Akyem Tafo and Kyebi. Worshipping of gods is not peculiar to the Akyems, Ghanaians or Africans. The Romans worshipped and prayed to River Tiber in Italy, calling it, “Father Tiber.” (Refer Macaulay, C Days of Ancient Rome.) The Britons sing, and boast of being sons of the sea. (Refer the British patriotic song, “When Britons first at heaven’s command arose from out of the azure main etc. etc.) and several other citations that this narration has not enough space to portray. The author is a Christian, and do not advocate the worship of gods, but JEHOVAH-GOD. He has implicit belief in Jesus Christ and respects JEHOVAH’s command to his people in abstaining from idol and image worship as found in Exodus 20:3 in the Holy Bible. Nevertheless, this work is mere history which needs to be written for posterity.

Author : Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761870715

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The Making of an African King by Anthony Ephirim-Donkor Pdf

In this edition of The Making of an African King: Patrilineal and Matrilineal Struggle Among the Ᾱwutu (Effutu) of Ghana, Revised & Updated, every chapter is updated, taking into account the 2015 Ghana Supreme Court ruling on the internecine kingship struggle among the Ᾱwutu (Effutu) of Simpa (Winneba). The patrilineal Otuano Royal Family sued the Acquah faction and proponents of matrilineal succession in 1976, seeking confirmation of their inalienable right as the sole kingmakers of Simpa, and also for the court to place perpetual injunction on the Acquahs never to interfere in the royal affairs of Simpa. During the intervening decades from 1976-2015, Simpa witnessed a spate of intermittent political violence, especially the months leading to their annual Nyantɔr (aboakyir) Festival, all aimed at preventing the king from propitiating the ancestors and deities of Simpa led by Pɛnkyae Otu. With the Supreme Court ruling, people now have the opportunity to read the judgment in its entirety and make up their own minds. What is actually fascinating about the whole internecine royal struggle is, that we have a situation whereby a matrilineal political system practiced by the Akan is displacing a long-established patrilineal system of descent traditionally practiced by the Guan speaking people of Simpa. Such an idea would be unheard of in the West, but this is what is happening among the Ᾱwutu (Effutu) of Simpa (Winneba) socio-culturally and politically. Indeed, it shows how unique and transformative the Akan ābusua (a mother and her children) system is all about.

Author : Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780761860587

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African Religion Defined by Anthony Ephirim-Donkor Pdf

African religion is ancestor worship; it revolves around the dead, now thought to be alive and well in heaven (the Samanadzie) and propitiated by the living on earth. For the Akan, the ancestors’ stool is the emblem of the ancestors (Nananom Nsamanfo). Led by their kings and queen mothers as living ancestors, the Akan periodically propitiate the ancestors’ stools housing their ancestors. In return, the ancestors and deities influence the affairs of living descendants, making ancestor worship as tenably viable as any other religion. This second edition updates the scholarship on ancestor worship by demonstrating the centrality of the ancestors’ stool as the ultimate religious symbol. In addition, all chapters have been expanded. A new chapter has been added to show how ancestor worship is pragmatically integrative, theologically sound, teleological as well as soteriological, with a highly trained clerical body and elders as mediators.

Author : Amy Timberlake
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375989346

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One Came Home by Amy Timberlake Pdf

A Newbery Honor Book An ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Novel “An adventure, a mystery, and a love song to the natural world. . . . Run out and read it. Right now.”—Newbery Medalist Karen Cushman In the town of Placid, Wisconsin, in 1871, Georgie Burkhardt is known for two things: her uncanny aim with a rifle and her habit of speaking her mind plainly. But when Georgie blurts out something she shouldn't, her older sister Agatha flees, running off with a pack of "pigeoners" trailing the passenger pigeon migration. And when the sheriff returns to town with an unidentifiable body—wearing Agatha's blue-green ball gown—everyone assumes the worst. Except Georgie. Refusing to believe the facts that are laid down (and coffined) before her, Georgie sets out on a journey to find her sister. She will track every last clue and shred of evidence to bring Agatha home. Yet even with resolute determination and her trusty Springfield single-shot, Georgie is not prepared for what she faces on the western frontier.

Author : Edwin William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCBK:C039636375

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African Ideas of God by Edwin William Smith Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3319055

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Devyani Gupta,Purba Hossain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350327047

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Across Colonial Lines by Devyani Gupta,Purba Hossain Pdf

Across Colonial Lines takes a multi-perspective approach to the study of empire and commodities, and encourages readers to look at commodity histories in alternative spatial and temporal contexts. It offers a comparative understanding of commodities in the Venetian, Portuguese, Dutch, French and British Empires. Highlighting the interwoven character of multiple commodity networks, this book situates commodities like gold, coffee, tea and indigo, to name a few, within pre-existing networks of labour, consumption and knowledge production. It explores the nexus between the local and the global, and highlights the role played by individual producers, petty traders, sailors and even consumers in creating regional circulations within a global political economy. In this volume, commodity networks are not just sites of production and trade, but also of political control, social organisation and consumption choices. They provide the impetus for globalisation from as early as the thirteenth century. Each chapter takes an individual commodity to illustrate the history of commodity transmission within imperial contexts. From early modern Venetian commerce to the trade networks of the Eurasian world; from the trading ambitions of British sailors to Portuguese global imperial ambitions; from the cross-imperial knowledge networks of indigo to the assertion of indigenous agency in Angola; and from the commodification of labour to the experience of tourism in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean World, Across Colonial Lines uses commodity networks as a lens to study empire building across varied yet connected geographies and chronologies.

Author : Portia Owusu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000766547

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Spectres from the Past by Portia Owusu Pdf

Spectres from the Past: The "History" of Slavery in West African and African-American Narratives examines the merit of the claim that West African writers, in comparison to African-Americans authors, deliberately expunge the history of slavery from literary narratives. The book explores slavery in contemporary West African and African-American literature by looking at the politics of history and memory. It interrogates notions of History and memory by considering the possibility that shared traumas, such as West African and African-American experiences of slavery, can be remembered and historicised differently, according to critical factors such as socio-economic realities, cultural beliefs and familial traditions. At the heart of the book are compelling and new readings of slavery in six literary narratives that draws on cultural philosophies, musicology and linguistics to demonstrate diverse and unusual ways that Black writers in West Africa and North America write about slavery in literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Railroads
ISBN : MINN:31951D000431052

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The Railway Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UCAL:C2538106

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Railway Age and Northwestern Railroad by Anonim Pdf