Abrupt, unexpected FREEDOM finds young Malidoma...and he’s not at all sure what to do about it...

After 16 years within the realm of White Male Missionaries, young Malidoma finds himself at the center of a very unexpected turn of events...

Malidoma and his closest schoolmates, now teenagers, enjoy the freedom of a little rebellion...

The policies , procedures and processes by which the European missionaries, who kidnapped young Malidoma and many many other African children, maintain their hold on the minds, bodies and spirits of many on the continent of Africa...

From the ages of 4-12 Malidoma describes being held as a kidnapped African boy among other kidnapped African boys from various villages within the vicinity of the European Christian missioniary school/church. Beatings, isolation, Adult labor burdens on the backs of children, complete enforced identity destruction and reconstruction...

A European missionary kidnaps an African child...

A White male western journalist perspective on the current state of virus variants...

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An indigenous African Grandfather’s multi-day funeral ceremony, an intense display of every form of exquisite culture imaginable (sculpture, cuisine, clothing design, esoteric arts, music, song, poetry, dance...) as well as that which is unimaginable (especially for those outside the culture) because it includes the ‘supernatural’...

The author shares the intimate, intricate details of what happens when a grand elder/chief/healer/priest, such as his grandfather Bakhye, departs from physical life.

An in-depth look into the childhood of a boy born into rich indigenous African culture and traditons. The author, Malidoma Some, was born at a time when White missionaries were hell bent on changing every aspect of his world as he knew it...