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Griots Beneath the Baobab: Tales from Los Angeles
Griots Beneath the Baobab, the latest anthology published by International Black Writers and Artists of Los Angeles (IBWA-LA), honors the creative spirit of some of America's most insightful griots—by way of L.A. Griots features powerful stories by noted, award-winning, and best-selling writers Donald Bakeer, Octavia E. Butler, Wanda Coleman, Stanley Crouch, Eric Jerome Dickey, Sikivu Hutchinson, Silas Jones, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Gary Phillips, Randy Ross, Jervey Tervalon, and Ellery Washington, C.
190 pages, Paperback
First published April 5, 2002
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August 9, 2022
I was only going to read Secrets of Divine Love this month but when I viewed a story by @calm_uto in which she posted two excerpts from this book, I wanted to read it right away. She was so kind to share the ebook with me and I finished it less than 24hrs later 🙃
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree narrates a story of a girl’s experience during the Boko Haram. Ya-Ta grows up in a closely-knit village defined by family, school, and church. Her growing awareness of self is indicated by her sense of responsibility as the only daughter among five male siblings. Her friend and school mate, Aisha, is married off and like many others before her, she does not return to class. But Ya-Ta has big dreams about education. She wants to go to university and speak good fluent English and become a teacher and earn more than enough money to relieve her family from the poverty they in which they suffer.
Just when she earns herself the Borno State government scholarship for exceptional girl students, the Boko Haram terrorists perish her dreams for a better life. She is enslaved in the Sambisa Forest with her best friend, Sarah and her pregnant friend, Aisha while her youngest brother is taken else where - unknown to her - and her father and four brothers, killed.
Between forgoing her faith, constant hunger, hopes and nightmares, marrying a man who could have possibly killed her family, facing rape and beatings, and discovering that their captors have turned the area beneath the sacred tree into a mass grave, Ya - Ta struggles in a dilemma of which life is better for her.
Buried Beneath The Baobab Tree is a fictional book inspired by real experiences of survivors of the Boko Haram Terrorism that took place in Nigeria.
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree narrates a story of a girl’s experience during the Boko Haram. Ya-Ta grows up in a closely-knit village defined by family, school, and church. Her growing awareness of self is indicated by her sense of responsibility as the only daughter among five male siblings. Her friend and school mate, Aisha, is married off and like many others before her, she does not return to class. But Ya-Ta has big dreams about education. She wants to go to university and speak good fluent English and become a teacher and earn more than enough money to relieve her family from the poverty they in which they suffer.
Just when she earns herself the Borno State government scholarship for exceptional girl students, the Boko Haram terrorists perish her dreams for a better life. She is enslaved in the Sambisa Forest with her best friend, Sarah and her pregnant friend, Aisha while her youngest brother is taken else where - unknown to her - and her father and four brothers, killed.
Between forgoing her faith, constant hunger, hopes and nightmares, marrying a man who could have possibly killed her family, facing rape and beatings, and discovering that their captors have turned the area beneath the sacred tree into a mass grave, Ya - Ta struggles in a dilemma of which life is better for her.
Buried Beneath The Baobab Tree is a fictional book inspired by real experiences of survivors of the Boko Haram Terrorism that took place in Nigeria.
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