After months of research in several university libraries, book stores, and on line outlets, we've come up empty. Too many of the books on African folklore are out of print or so expensive there' just no way we can possibly afford to do the in depth studies on the topics we are accustomed to offering ( Read more... )

o/` "Bring back the light ( Read more... )

o/` "Is it written in the stars
Are we paying for some crime
Is that all that we are good for
Just a stretch of mortal time

"Is this God's experiment
In which we have no say
In which we're given paradise
But only for a day" o/`

-- "Written in the Stars" performed by Elton John and LeAnn Rimes ( Read more... )

o/` "When blood sees blood
Of its own
It sings to see itself again
It sings to hear the voice it's known
It sings to recognize the face

"One body split and passed along the line
>From the shoulder to the hip
I know these bones as being mine
And the curving of the lip" o/`

---- "Blood Sings" performed by Suzanne Vega ( Read more... )

o/`"In a dream beneath the barley moon ( Read more... )