The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community

Through The Healing Wisdom of Africa, readers can come to understand that the life of indigenous and traditional people is a paradigm for an intimate relationship with the natural world that both surrounds us and is within us. The book is the most complete study of the role ritual plays in the lives of African people--and the role it can play for seekers in the West.

Author: Malidoma Patrice Some
Publisher: Tarcherperigee
Published: 09/13/1999
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.00w x 0.93d
ISBN13: 9780874779912
ISBN10: 087477991X
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Indigenous, Folk & Tribal
- Social Science | Customs & Traditions
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social

About the Author
Malidoma Patrice Somé, born in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) West Africa, is initiated in the ancestral traditions of his tribe, and is a medicine man and diviner in the Dagra culture. He holds three master's degrees and two doctorates from Sorbonne and Brandeis University, and has taught at the University of Michigan. He currently devotes himself to speaking and, with his wife, Sobonfu, conducting intensive workshops throughout the United States.