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Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs |  | Authors: Askhari Johnson Hodari, Yvonne McCalla Sobers
Creator: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Publisher: Broadway Books
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
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ISBN: 0767931203
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Product Description
This little book contains the wisdom of the ages, and is guaranteed to produce a smile of appreciation at the sheer sense of the proverbs you will find inside. From advice you wish your mother had given you, to things you probably suspected, but had never put into words, Lifelines is a book to be read, absorbed and treasured.—Pearl Cleage, New York Times best selling author of What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day
This illustrated treasury of proverbs unites the timeless wisdom of Black communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, while speaking to the triumphs and challenges of everyday life.
Lifelines: The Black book of Proverbs travels to all corners of the globe to reclaim and preserve African wisdom. This book offers the remarkably wise heart of Africa and her children to readers experiencing career changes, new births, weddings, death, and other rites of passage. Readers will find truth in the African saying, “When the occasion arises, there is a proverb to suit it.”
Proverbs are presented in vibrant story-poem form; and are uniquely arranged by key life cycle events such as birth, initiation, marriage, and death. The proverbs can be found under themes such as “wealth”, “parenting”, “change” and “strength.” Inspired illustrations introduce each section along with beautiful vignettes showing how African proverbs comfort, inspire and instruct during different phases of life.
Lifelines illuminates how traditions, civilization and spirit survive and thrive, despite centuries of loss of freedom, family, identity, language, land, and wealth. The proverbs offer wisdom for every stage of our lives. Collected in one place as never before, it is the perfect addition to the book shelves of families large and small, from Nairobi to New Orleans and every city in between.
From Birth:
Every cackling hen was an egg at first.
-Rwanda
to Marriage:
A woman's clothes are the price her husband pays for peace.
-Central Africa, East Africa, and Southern Africa (Bantu)
and Elderhood:
Every time an old man dies it is as if a library has burnt down.
-West Africa
as well as every stage of life in between, the proverbs found in Lifelines offer the guidance and wisdom to last a life time.
Unlike other collections of proverbs, Lifelines hews closely to the cycle of life and draws inspiration from the authors combined 110 years of experience. Askhari Johnson Hodari and Yvonne McCalla Sobers have set out to let their proverbs both tell a story and stand alone. So whether you flip it open to a random page, read it through from start to finish, or go searching for a proverb to match your unique circumstance, you’ll find just the right lifeline to provide the comfort and guidance you’re looking for.
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A Gift Of A Book November 25, 2009
Tommy Fluker (Birmingham, Alabama)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is a reminder of how oral traditions have carried us through since the beginning of time. It teaches us how simple words of wisdom can shape us in our present, while providing us with the strength, courage, and peace to reach towards the future. The beauty and magic of this book is how the proverbs can literally jump off the pages and into your life, as if they were already there waiting to be unlocked from our ancient memories.
Thank you all for this work and we will keep this treasure in our family for generations to come. Peace and Many Blessings.
Perfect Gift November 26, 2009
Savannah Jones (MD)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
A friend of mine gave me this book and I realized in the first 15 minutes of reading that it is a real gem. It's one of those books that belongs on your coffee table or bedside. The section on Childhood is one of my favorites along with Ethics and Values. Just makes the perfect gift for your book club companions, for a person who loves language or just have in the bathroom for short inspirational read. And, Archbishp Tutu's foreword is a blessed endorsement. Proverbs on everyday life...something for everyone.
Inspirational, thought provoking gift December 9, 2009
Avid Reader (Tacoma, WA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This little book is incredible. I keep a copy on my coffee table at home, on a small side table in my waiting area at work for patients to browse through and in my brief case to share with girls that I work with through a small non-profit agency I am committed to. I am consistently pleased with the provocative discussions I have with children about these proverbs and feel inspired when I come across one that resonates with me on any given day. I have purchased several of these and plan to give them as Christmas and Kwaanza gifts this year. This is a must have!!!
Love this book of wisdom November 13, 2009
Logophile (Maryland, USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Here are some of my favorites from this book -
They who possess much wisdom, have it in their ears; they who possess little wisdom, have it on their lips. (Uganda)
"This is how it is usually done" doesn't make people progress. (Ewe)
The tortoise adorns himself with hard shells but his neck is bare so that relatives might touch him. (Idoma, Nigeria)
Those who eat eggs don't know whether the chicken suffered. (Martinique)
I love this book - it's one of those volumes you can return to again and again. It's nicely divided into sections - Love, Marriage, Death, Ethics and Values, for example - and each section begins with a short piece of the authors' personal reflrctions and stories that we all can relate to. While Lifelines is a book that will appeal to all, it is, for those of us of African descent in this part of the world, of special interest. Proverbs from Africa, the Caribbean, North & South America...Great. Highly recommended.
treasure house of wisdom November 14, 2009
Yardie Bibliophile (Washington, DC)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Kudos to Yvonne McCalla Sobers and Askhari Johnson Hodari for a scintillating collection of proverbs from Africa and across the African diaspora. An veritable treasure house of timeless wisdom, that can be used not only for leisurely reading, but also as a teaching or academic tool. A must-have for those interested not only in the proverbs themselves, but in the cultural contexts from which they spring.
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