Rain: A Song for All and None

by Adoyo

Overview

Rain tells the story of the Dream Walker Maya, an empathic clairvoyant who experiences history through the eyes of other Dream Walkers across time.

Under the guidance of ancestral Spirits, Maya strives to find her bearings as she is swept up in the thousand-year saga of the devastatingly insidious legacies of colonizing empires that continue to ravage her home. Braving uncharted waters, Maya discovers illuminating truths concealed behind the veil of History's public myths.

Her quest unites her across the centuries with ancestral Dream Walkers who will teach her to understand the power of her gifts, and Maya learns to fulfill her destiny as a visionary steward of both the Past and the Future in an ever-changing world.

A poetic meditation on History through the echoes of Oral Tradition, Rain recalls the song of storytellers born on the shores of the Great Lake Nam Lolwe at the eye of the Nile in the heart of East Africa.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781734759112
Publisher:	Zamani Chronicles
Publication date:	04/15/2020
Series:	Dream Walker Canticles , #1
Pages:	404
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
  
  • Dedication
  • A Note to the Reader
  • Epigraph
  
  
  
  
• BOOK I. OLÓO
  
  • Canto One
  • Canto Two
  • Canto Three
  • Canto Four
  • Canto Five
  • Canto Six
  • Canto Seven
  
  
  
  
• BOOK II. AKOTH
  
  • Canto Eight
  • Canto Nine
  • Canto Ten
  • Canto Eleven
  • Canto Twelve
  • Canto Thirteen
  • Canto Fourteen
  
  
  
  
• BOOK III. ALEX AND MAYA
  
  • Canto Fifteen
  • Canto Sixteen
  • Canto Seventeen
  • Canto Eighteen
  • Canto Nineteen
  • Canto Twenty
  • Canto Twenty-one
  
  
  
  
• BOOK IV. ROSIE RAN AWAY
  
  • Canto Twenty-two
  • Canto Twenty-three
  • Canto Twenty-four
  • Canto Twenty-five
  • Canto Twenty-six
  • Canto Twenty-seven
  • Canto Twenty-eight
  
  
  
  
• BOOK V. RAIN
  
  • Canto Twenty-nine
  • Canto Thirty
  • Canto Thirty-one
  • Canto Thirty-two
  • Canto Thirty-three
  • Canto Thirty-four
  • Canto Thirty-five
  
  
  
  
• BOOK VI. THE BLOOD OF ANATOLE BASILE TEJO
  
  • Canto Thirty-six
  • Canto Thirty-seven
  • Canto Thirty-eight
  • Canto Thirty-nine
  • Canto Forty
  • Canto Forty-one
  • Canto Forty-two
  
  
  
  
• BOOK VII. THE SIEGE OF MOMBASA
  
  • Canto Forty-three
  • Canto Forty-four
  • Canto Forty-five
  • Canto Forty-six
  • Canto Forty-seven
  • Canto Forty-eight
  • Canto Forty-nine
  
  
  
  
• BOOK VIII. SNOW
  
  • Canto Fifty
  • Canto Fifty-one
  • Canto Fifty-two
  • Canto Fifty-three
  • Canto Fifty-four
  • Canto Fifty-five
  • Canto Fifty-six
  
  
  
  
• BOOK IX. HEHRA
  
  • Canto Fifty-seven
  • Canto Fifty-eight
  • Canto Fifty-nine
  • Canto Sixty
  • Canto Sixty-one
  • Canto Sixty-two
  • Canto Sixty-three
  
  
  
  
• APPENDIX
  
  • Book Summaries
  • JokOlóo and JokOmolo Partial Family Tree
  • Radial Timeline, 1845 to Present
  • The Sieges of Mombasa and Fort Jesus, 1498 to 1963
  • Glossary of Place Names
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgements
  
  
  
  

Editorial Reviews

“…written in prose, yet it sounds like Rumi!” —Anonymous

“Rain’s meditation on life —fleeting, yet eternal— is beautiful in the fullest sense of the word. Its poetic sense of connectivity, in content & in rhythm, feels like the flow of memories in moments past, present & future.” — J. Fowler

“Reading Rain, I have to wonder: are we as Africans just really resilient, or do we simply not understand the disruption and brutality of the colonizers? Every student in school needs to read this book.” — T. Kibor

“…a story of immense beauty & astonishing resilience” — TK

“Rain is addictive! A pure delight to the senses… Listening to Canto 32, I felt like the dust in my soul was being washed away… like my spirit was being cleansed by the poetry of Rain!” — M.M. Green

“Mesmerizing! Rain will take you places!”

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