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Orisa Press is a books and games publishing platform specifically featuring African history and culture titles such as The Little African History Book, Person Divinity and Nature and others by Chukwunyere Kamalu.
BOOKS
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ORISA PRESS TITLES
FOUNDATIONS OF AFRICAN THOUGHT
- A worldview grounded in the African heritage of religion, philosophy, science and art
"What the author seeks to do is to present the ancient foundations of African thought in such a way as to capture the essential elements and concepts of the African world. Viewing the African continent in the same way as Diop and Obenga, that is, as a cultural unity, Kamalu reconstructs the general categories of African thought from the works of many writers..."
Dr Molefe Kete Asante, Temple University, Philadelphia
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THE WORD AT FACE VALUE -
An abridged account of Dogon cosmology
by Chukwunyere Kamalu
This is an abridgement with commentary of an original account of the beginnings of the Universe, by an African people, specifically the Dogon sages of Mali, West Africa, first titled "The Pale Fox" and written by the French anthropologists, Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen.
The Dogon account is special, not only because of the sheer elegance of the Dogon worldview, but also because of its echoes of biblical theology, and (given that it comes out of a 700 year old tradition) its remarkable predictions of modern scientific knowledge. Take for example, their knowledge of the companion of Sirius (Sirius B), which was not discovered by western scientists until 1862; their reference to the double helix pattern of the "signature of life" which is remarkable if viewed in the context of DNA, the double helix building block of life itself, discovered by Watson and Crick in 1953. Most remarkable of all the Dogon account of the Universe portrayed in the work, the Pale Fox, continues to yield predictions of modern scientific discovery, the most significant of recent years being the Dogon prediction that Sirius has a second companion (known to scientists as Sirius C), indicated to exist by perturbations in the orbit of Sirius B around Sirius A discovered by the French astrophysicists, Daniel Benest and J.L. Duvent in 1995. The Dogon have always believed that this second companion is less heavy than Sirius B, just as the scientists results have indicated.
How the Dogon without telescopes and other modern technology could have amassed such knowledge so long ago is still a mystery fervently debated today.
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THE LITTLE AFRICAN HISTORY BOOK -
Black Africa from the Origins of Humanity to the Assassination
of Lumumba and the turn of the 20th Century
by Chukwunyere Kamalu
Certain questions emerge from Africa's ancient and modern history: How did the various races evolve out of an original African race?Were ancient Nubia and ancient Egypt the first neighbouring black African nations? Did the pre-Socratic Greek philosophers inherit their philosophy from the ancient Egyptians? How did the slave trade, colonialism and neo-colonialism contribute to the economic and technological advancement of Europe and America? Did an American President order the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo? Could the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa have originated from vaccination campaigns? Why have Africa's riches fallen into the hands of greedy gangster politicians and warlords? Is the poor state of Africa's health purely a question of bad leadership?
Within the confines of this brief history of Africa, the author simply tells it as he sees it.
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A Modern View of the Person and the Cosmos in African Thought
by Chukwunyere Kamalu
This systematic study of African beliefs aims to give the reader more than a scramble of disconnected myths. Africa is viewed as a cultural unity in contrast to anthropological works which emphasise the idea of the diversity of Africa to the extreme. The result of this has been that ancient and traditional African worldviews/belief systems as a whole are seen as historically and geographically unconnected. This is more a personal than a rigid academic view of African systems of thought as a corpus of ideas having some kind of connection. A connection based on certain common truths, they refer to man/woman as beings who are a meaningful part of a mysterious universe.
In eight chapters, the author looks at the questions of Rites of Passage, The Person as Multiple Selves, Number Destiny and Divination, Complementary Opposites in Ethics and Morals, Ancient and Traditional Accounts of the Beginning, Common Elements in African Cosmology, The Supreme Being the Divinities and Spirit-Forces, and Earth and Land in African Thought and Practice. These chapters are detailed examples of analysis and interpretation, as well as representative personal experience, in the articulation and expression of African cosmology. This work opens up new understanding of African cosmology in its presentation of the holistic unit of material and immaterial, visible and invisible - all are understood to be part of an African worldview.
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by Chukwunyere Kamalu
This illustrated volume makes an accessible A-Z guide to the cosmological ideas and beliefs of African peoples from the ancient to the traditional. Included are modern evolutions of African belief systems in the Americas such as Abakua, Candomble and Santeria, among other traditions newly emerged; although derived from systems transported to the Americas by enslaved Africans. The Dictionary serves as a useful brief introduction to African beliefs.
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by Chukwunyere Kamalu
One day in the forest, Aki is given the power to be the fastest boy
in the world by a strange tree - but there is a price to pay.
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ZEN AND THE BASICS OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
Financial Accounting by Simple Example
by Chux Kamalu
Through the viewpoint of Zen, a fictional professional mentor, the production of financial accounts is demonstrated using simple worked examples, to take the reader immediately to the core of what they need to know to produce financial accounts. Zen sweeps aside the cobwebs of technical jargon for a simple exposition by example.
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