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Folayan's Promise (Legacy of the Gold Banded Box) - Softcover

Brown, Phyllis Jane

 
9781948550017: Folayan's Promise (Legacy of the Gold Banded Box)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1948550016 ISBN 13: 9781948550017
Verlag: Lasan Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

 Will Papa’s box of treasures reveal the destiny of his long-awaited girl child?


Will the stranger’s gold stone that marked her birth be a bad omen?

 

Will the chieftain’s daughter succeed in her quest to claim the man Folayan loves?

 

Book 1: Folayan’s Promise 

Long awaited girl-child, in whom the fate of the clan exists, Folayan remains the adored only daughter of Fanti parents. She has an adventurous bent but juxtaposed to her five older brothers, she must learn “girl things”. Her mother often reminds her that Folayan means “one who walks in dignity”.  r.  

Living under the shadows of slaveholding castles and forts, while watching ships intrude on the Gold Coast, Kwabena prepared for his only daughter to prosper in spite of lurking predators. Filling his gold-trimmed trunk with wares useful for a diligent Fanti woman, he also included several items uncommon for females along with fine garments and jewels. Unbeknownst to him, her mother had fretted over one golden gem gifted by a stranger and tucked it in Papa's box days before Folayan’s birth sixteen years ago.

Beautiful, talented, and different like the gleaming stone, Folayan wants to stay safe, and marry. When the village celebrates her womanhood, she holds the mysterious nugget to her heart. Her anxiety mounts. Will her only love offer his hand? Will her Papa accept it? Is the stranger’s pebble of gold a blessing of a bright future … or is it a warning that her world will shatter on the edge of hwaani hwanni light?

The slave traders are circling Kormantse. Will the village survive? Will Folayan’s family? Will she?

In The legacy of the Gold-Banded Box, Book 1: Folayan’s Promise, Phyllis Brown creates a palate of life, thriving and woven with dreams within the village of Kormantse, located on the Gold Coast of West Africa.

 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Phyllis J. Brown has inspired students since she was four, playing school. After attaining a B.A. in Spanish, she married and taught second grade until the births of her son and daughter. When she returned to her career, she earned four credentials, an M.A., and taught high school English, culminating nearly 32 years in the classroom before retiring. Phyllis has published two African American Literature and Cultural Activities Kits for Educators, grades K-3 and 4-6; poetry, her Master's Degree thesis entitled: Narratives of Enslaved People: Lifting the Veil, Resisting the Peculiar Institution; and a play that she also directed which was performed in several California venues, entitled, O Freedom! In pursuit of historical authenticity for Folayan's Promise, she visited 3 continents, and 34 countries, including 14 in Africa to create a rich palette of culturally authentic African heritage, with its perils of enslavement , as well as, traditions, triumphs and African contributions to the world portrayed in The Legacy of the Gold-Banded Box series. Author, speaker, and coach Phyllis Brown, is a California Literature Consultant, who was honored to be a finalist for the Teacher of Excellence award. Her five-book series, The Legacy of the Gold-Banded Box, received the Outstanding Fiction award at the Southern California Writers' Conference. Along with keynote speeches, and teacher training workshops, she also presents Sankofa Seminars for parents and mentors who desire to implement knowledge of African heritage, life skills, and academic success strategies for themselves and their children.

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Verlag
Lasan Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1948550016
ISBN 13 
9781948550017
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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