Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother-Tongue to Memory (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory)

Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother-Tongue to Memory (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory)A deeply informed Afrocentric view of language and cultural retention under slavery. Maureen Warner Lewis offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean. The study breaks new ground in addressing the experience of Africans in one locale of the Africa Diaspora and examines the nature of their social and linguistic heritage as it was successively retained,

A slave mother kills her child by a rapist-master

Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart

the first African-American in space

and may have fading pages and may be difficult to read

Size: 6" x 9" / Tri-fold (1/2 doz

mysterious rollercoaster of a novel that had me hooked from the explosive start

Men couldn't help but be drawn to her exquisite beauty and incomparable grace

2016Charles Horton Cooley Award for Recent Book

Blurring the lines between realism and fiction

with particular focus on the representation of black femininity

Extensively researched and masterfully executed

and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself