The Healing Wisdom of Africa - Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community

Through The Healing Wisdom of Africa, readers can come to understand that the life of indigenous and traditional people is a paradigm for an intimate relationship with the natural world that both surrounds us and is within us. The book is the most complete study of the role ritual plays in the lives of African people–and the role it can play for seekers in the West.

Malidoma Patrice Somé, born in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) West Africa, is initiated in the ancestral traditions of his tribe, and is a medicine man and diviner in the Dagra culture. He holds three master’s degrees and two doctorates from Sorbonne and Brandeis University, and has taught at the University of Michigan. He currently devotes himself to speaking and, with his wife, Sobonfu, conducting intensive workshops throughout the United States.

Praise: "All of his sentences are filled with knowledge of the Other World. Through him we understand emotion as a form of Spirit". Robert Bly "Profoundly wise and fascinating ... Malidoma Patrice Some has delivered an incomparably meaningful gift to us wanderers and seekers in the West ... The Healing Wisdom of Africa means the ancestors still care about us, and want to help us grow. They have sent Malidoma far from home to remind us where home is." Alice Walker "An amazing bridge over the chasm of modern isolation. Malidoma reawakens the rituals of the heart. This is profound, brilliant, and accessible medicine for us." Jack Kornfield