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Hebrewisms of West Africa

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This book gives an interesting look at West African tribes, their customes and traditions and coins them through the lable of "Judaism". The writer and reshearcher comes up with various theories on how so-called Africans could be practing this "religion", when in fact they are only keeping the "ways of their forefathers".
A great read for the inquisitive mind, if one can take into account when it was written, and the overture of the racist Eurocentric mind that stives to grapple in the dark on how so called Africans could keep "Jewish" practices rather than just draw the obvious conclusion that these African tribes are indeed part of the lost tribes of Israel.
Any African American in particular would find it very interesting when trying to reshearch their cultural roots.

Bought this book a few weeks back and i must say it seems very informative of the Hebrew customs of western Africa..Ive only read 2 chapters so far.. Book gives a very interesting look into the ways of the Ashanti of western Africa and their ways in Jamaica during slavery and afterward.. Only problem Im having is that the book is a little hard to read.. Not hard meaning that it uses difficult words; but hard meaning, hard to follow.. Perhaps there could have been a better, or more reader friendly way to inform... I have other books to read that deal closely with the subject of the Hebrews.. I plan on sitting this book down and coming back to it later..

The introduction drew me into this book. It (intro) puts you at this end of history and the possible relation to the author's postulation. The book is rich with eye-witness accounts, linguistic references and a large arsenal of sources are sighted. It is an exhaustive approach and at times a little long winded, but overall, a must read for any one interested in African/diaspora history. The Hebrew references seem very plausible and incites further research. I am pleased with this book.