Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he remained for the next fifteen years, being harshly indoctrinated into European ways of thought and worship. The story tells of his return to his people, his hard initiation back into those people, which lead to his desire to convey ...
This extended essay, an argument for ritualization, is by a graduate of the Sorbonne and Brandeis University, Malidoma Patrice Some, who recalls the rituals he grew up with as a member of the Dagara tribe of West Africa. Through these stories, many of which center on his grandfather, Some reveals how ritual works--for the individual, the family, ...
This is a portrait of an African shaman who was kidnapped by Christian missionaries as a child and his subsequent story of escape and self-realization. Author Malidoma Some (a shaman who was later educated in Europe and America) manages to elude his captors and walk back to his family's tribe 100 miles away. From there, Some describes his ...
A beautifully written book which brings ancient wisdom teachings of healing and ritual from the heart of Africa to the modern world. Malidoma Patrice Some is both an initiated African shaman and a gifted Western scholar. His name literally means "he who makes friends with the stranger" and he has spent his life immersing himself in African and ...
Malidoma means be friends with the stranger. Lecturer and author Malidoma Patrice Some was born under French colonial rule in West Africa, and at the age of four was taken from his family by a Jesuit priest who kept him in a seminary built to produce a generation of black Catholic priests. Fifteen years later, Malidoma fled the seminary and walked ...
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