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Siphiwe Baleka, concerned with the lost history of his family because of the criminal European and American Trade in African people and their enslavement, uses DNA testing and a lot of research to reconstruct the history of the Balanta people all the way back to their origin in Ta-Nihisi, Nubia (Sudan), in prehistoric times. Volume I covers that history up until their exodus during the Egyptian XVIII Dynasty (1479-1429 BC). The book is presented as a letter to his sons, so that they will know the full dignity of their ancestral heritage. But the book is also of immense value to all people of African descent whose ancestors were the victims of American slavery, and whose descendants have ...

In Balanta B’urassa, My Sons: Those Who Resist Remain Volume I, we established the following facts: 1. Our paternal ancestors are the Balanta who live in present-day Guinea Bissau on the West Coast of Africa. 2. Our ancestors share a common lineage with Bantu and Nilo-Saharan people of North East Africa. 3. More specifically, our ancestors lived in Ta-Nihisi, Nubia. Today, that area is called Sudan. 4. Between 18,000 BC and 332 BC, Balanta ancestors made numerous migrations from Ta-Nihisi and Ta-Meri to West Africa. This book, Volume II, explores in some detail those migrations, where we went and what happened to us until the first encounters with the Portuguese on the coast of ...

The third volume of Balanta B'Urassa, My Sons: Those Who Resist Remain covers the history of the Balanta people from the time of the first arrival of Portuguese to the coast of Guinea Bissau until the capture of Siphiwe Baleka's great, great, great, great, great grandfather, his arrival in the Carolinas, and his enslavement by the Blake family. This is the book that explains Balanta life prior to the European trans Atlantic slave trade and the who, what, where, when and how the majority of Balanta people ended up in North America.

The only English translation of Dictionnaire Des Proverbes Balant by Jules Mansaly. Jules Mansaly is a Balanta writer from Senegal. In 2017 he won the Grand Prix of the President of the Republic for Arts, Senegal for his novel 𝙇𝙚𝙨 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙙𝙚 𝙉𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙠𝙖, and was nominated to be among the top 10 writers of the year. In 2017, he publishe a Balanta-Ganja Dictionary (French). The book contains 534 Balanta proverbs. gluunta binge suu wéde 'You don't hide your nudity in the water' ø-gl̀ ââ b̀ ngə'ś sʊâ â â'â o-wédé cl-nudity 3PL NEG hide cl-water That is to say that we have to tell the truth

History of the first 100 years at AIC Kijabe Hospital, a mission hospital founded by the Africa Inland Mission in Kijabe, Kenya. Featuring Elwood and Bernice Davis, Virginia Blakeslee, Dr. Arthur and Dr. Bill Barnett, Nettie Sinclair, and inspirational stories from current missionaries. Large print format. $5 from each PDF download will benefit the Elimu Education Housing Project at Kijabe Hospital. Click "view more" for the ebook pdf download option.

The Habesha Chronicles will take you in a time journey through the history of the Habesha people in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The Habesha people have a long history of statehood. You will start your journey with the great Axum kingdom which was one of the four great civilizations of the world at the time along with Rome, Persia and China. You will be pinned to the book as you read about the great Queen Yodit Gudit who destroyed the kingdom of Axum and the Zagwe dynasty that followed her. You will read about the Zagwe kings who built the great Rock hewen churches of Lalibela. The story of the controversial Ahmed Ibn Al Ghazi, the conqueror is told beautifully in a chapter dedicated to him. T ...