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The Hero with an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional Africa (Paperback)

by Clyde W. Ford (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam USA; New edition edition (1 Feb 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0553378686
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553378689
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.7 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 616,645 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"This fascinating exploration of African stories and myths...tells us who we are as human beings--all of us."
--Cornel West, author of Race Matters
"This wonderful and sustaining work illuminates the power and importance of ancient African myth.... Scholarship and masterful storytelling combine...fascinating."
--"NAPRA ReView"
"A master storyteller....Clyde Ford picks up where Joseph Campbell left off."
--Jonathan Young, Ph.D., founding curator, Joseph Campbell Archives and Library
"This is a breakthrough book on the mythic imagination of Africa."
--"Atlanta Daily World"
"An important first look at the universal themes of some of the principal African myths...excellent and much-welcomed."
--"Seattle Times"
"An excellent introduction to African mythology....Brings insights into the myths themselves and encourages further reading."
--"The Bloomsbury Review"

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Retells the ancient legends of Africa, reveals their universal messages, and draws parallels between the symbols of Africa and those of other cultures.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A revival of the essentials of spiritual living, 13 Dec 2000
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As an African who grew up in Africa (albeit living in Europe)immensed in African mythology and folklore, I find THE HERO WITH AN AFRICAN FACE, a true revival of the exploration of the links that humans have with the supreme god-head. Clyde Ford, weaves through African heroes and heroines, producing a tapestry of both physical and spiritual meanings behind their battles and truimphs, and how that relates to our own journeys through life.

What I found very uplifting was accompanying Mr. Ford, whose ancestors where uprooted from their roots, through his personal existential journey, but this time from a different perspective, ie. coveyed by an African vessel. Something that Africans today can identify with. The stories also had a very impacting insight into our history, from the African belief of a supreme being, in collaboration with other gods, creating the universe and all that lives in it, and how the latter relates daily to the former.

I have even began to relate some of the stories and my one experiences in Africa to my young ones.

Yet again, we discover that before the Greeks and other civilisations, there was an African civilisation that influenced other civilisation, and which had and still has a strong mythological culture, that the world today has tried to kill off. Present-day religious practices, such as monotheism, have an African origin, thousands of years old before the biblical Moses. As the inspirational, late Cheihk Anta Diop says, it is left for us Africans to re-write our history, and right the wrongs that the west has perpetrated for 600 years.

A very lively, well-written and spiritually benefitial book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars All God's Children, 19 Mar 1999
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This review is from: The Hero with an African Face (Hardcover)
Increasingly, happily (albeit painfully)the new question for modern man and woman is "Am I my black brother's (sister's) keeper?" Conversely, "Am I my white brother's (sister's) keeper?" The answer is a resounding "Yes!". This book is a tremendous contribution toward the fulfillment of that Dream, toward a universal Philadelphia (phila = love; delphia = brother): the City of Brotherly Love, genuine agape, Unconditional Agape.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A monumental work, 4 Mar 1999
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Clyde W. Ford helps us to connect to African mythology on so many levels. It is encouraging and illuminating to finally see African mythology treated in the manner that it deserves: as vital as those of any other culture. He demonstrates the importance of myth for centering our lives and providing focus for living. His discussion of the meaning and role of myth in the preface is worth the price of the book alone.
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