Two Lives: My Spirit and I - Softcover

Two Lives: My Spirit & I

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. A unique insight into the vastly different worlds of Africa and the West, and two autobiographies in one: the life of the author, a Nandi woman from East Africa now resident in Canada, and the life of the first Tapsubei, of whom she is a reincarnation. The author grew up, one of the Nandi people, in colonial and post-independence Kenya. Her parents separated when she was young; Jane was taken from her mother and brought up in her father's household. There from her beloved grandmother she hears the story of her past life in a previous incarnation, as a resourceful mother who took to cattle-raiding to win for herself a better life. Inspired, Jane vows to live up to this example, a vow which takes her up country to Kisumu and Nairobi, where she tries her hand at a variety of jobs, from missionary to midwife. Eventually her path leads to Europe and Norther America, where she finds independence at last, and a career as artist and writer.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Artikel-Nr. 009067

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