![]() ![]() ![]() Assata-Garvey and Me: A Global African Journey for Children by Runoko Rashidi £11.Yoruba Love Stories by Olabode Ogunlana £8.99.The Man with the Stick by David Hughes £6.99.In reality these stories could be set anywhere in Africa. Photo by Jesse Goll on Unsplash I think anything that changes and, maybe, the first thing that attracted you to your partner is loveless. They are stories with a moral basis informed by faith and hark back to the traditions of Yoruba gods. The context of the love stories is Nigerian but the situations, the minor tragedies, the struggles and the power, joy and satisfaction of true love are. True love is not hurtful, hateful, or mean. Love usually wins but Ogunlana’s vividly drawn characters suffer from separation, mistaken identity, ethnic conflict, self-doubt and jealousy.The lovers meet at school study overseas, and set up businesses. True love has what it takes to last the test of time, but sometimes what you think is true love is in actual fact not. ![]() Love isn’t rare on the planet but I do believe true love is rare. Humans everyday all over the world fall in love. The context of the love stories is Nigerian but the situations, the minor tragedies, the struggles and the power, joy and satisfaction of true love are universal themes. by Ka圜 I read a lovely quote, True love is not a feeling, but a state of being. He tells the traditional stories with an ear to the nuances of the language and he brings to life a world of noble farmers, women warriors and over-reaching kings checked by their subjects. This volume contains five traditional legends and six other more recent stories, together with five love stories set in 20th Century Nigeria. After a long and successful career in insurance, Ogunlana set out to share these traditions. OlabodeOgunlana was brought up to value Yoruba indigenous culture, its language and its oral storytelling traditions at a time when they were undervalued in Nigeria. The Rare Leaf: Yoruba Legends and Love Stories by Olabode Ogunlana is a hardback edition combining the two paperback editionsThe Quest for the Rare Leaf and Yoruba Love Stories. ![]()
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