The Oshun Diaries : Encounters with an African Goddess
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1785631470
ISBN-13
9781785631474
Publisher
Eye Books
Imprint
Eye
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 8th, 2019
Print length
242 Pages
Weight
214 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 12.90 x 1.80 cms
Ksh 1,600.00
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As a young woman, Diane Esguerra forged a friendship with Susanna Wenger, an Austrian artist who became a Yoruba priestess in Nigeria. That sparks her own interest in the goddess Oshun, a symbol of female empowerment
Encounters with an African Goddess High priestesses are few and far between, white ones in Africa even more so. When Diane Esguerra hears of a mysterious Austrian woman worshipping the Ifa river goddess Oshun in Nigeria, her curiosity is aroused. It is the start of an extraordinary friendship that sustains Diane through the death of her son and leads to a quest to take part in Oshun rituals. Prevented by Boko Haram from returning to Nigeria, she finds herself at Ifa shrines in Florida amid vultures, snakes, goats’ heads, machetes, a hurricane and a cigar-smoking god. Her quest steps up a gear when Beyoncé channels Oshun at the Grammys and the goddess goes global. Mystifying, harrowing and funny, The Oshun Diaries explores the lure of Africa, the life of a remarkable woman and the appeal of the goddess as a symbol of female empowerment.
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