Spiritual Shackles

by Okeyo Jumal

Overview

Welcome to Spiritual Shackles, a literary journey that fires the imagination with such descriptive images that you feel transported right into the middle of the story. Not only is Spiritual Shackles a fine blend of history, literature and storytelling, it also intertwines a classical writing style with the gritty feel of today's steamy, romance novel.

If you're ready to enjoy a good book, take a journey that will mesmerize your senses, challenge your intellect, fill your eyes with tears of sadness while leaving you rolling on the floor in gut busting laughter; break open the pages of Spiritual Shackles, hang on to the excitement and enjoy the ride.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014675246
Publisher:	Griot Publishing
Publication date:	07/05/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	518
File size:	908 KB

About the Author

Author Jumal was born and raised in Pasadena California, a city set like a crown in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains with the Arroyo Seco Creek running through. The "Jewel" of the Crown City was and is the City Hall, a building that had fascinated Jumal from when he was a kid in ragged tennis shoes, a curious fascination that fueled his desire to delve into history books for answers to why thing were the way they were.

Pasadena, like most "Northern" cities, was void of Jim Crow signs, but racism was silently entrenched. When legitimized segregation or apartheid in America was finally struck down in 1954, the "peculiar institution" was too stubborn to crumble on its own, it needed help! Caught up in these volatile times, Jumal submerges himself in the eclectic mix of characters that jump off the pages of Spiritual Shackles, characters that kick down doors and smash obstacles as they search for answers to an elusive identity.

Jumal attended the University of California at Berkeley, Cal State University Los Angeles, Cal State University San Bernardino and Pasadena City College. He's attained a bachelor's degree in History and his master's degree in Education.

Jumal, the globetrotter, has traveled the continent of Africa, Europe and extensively in South America and the Caribbean Islands.

Jumal's travels and life experiences bleed onto the pages of Spiritual Shackles in vivid detail, not just in the powerful writing and fascinating histories, but in the storytelling. It's the gritty griot style storytelling that binds the novel and grips tightly to the reader's imagination.

Editorial Reviews

"Spiritual Shackles". I can't even begin to explain the feelings that overcame me when reading your book. I was born and raised in Pasadena (Worcester) and my family moved to Altadena Lincoln Ave when I was around 13.

For me, being Black in Pasadena was being raised in neighborhoods where you see us but the minute you step outside of your neighborhood you cease to exist. There was no larger cultural identity or pride with which to align yourself. I was blesse

Renay Nailon

I discovered a new author, O. Ajamu Jumal, at a reading at La Pintoresca Library, in Pasadena, CA. The book is Spiritual Shackles.
O. Ajamu Jumal is a profound and knowledgeable writer. When I heard him, the lid to my head flew off, and his writing reminded me of the multidimensional pieces of the great writer Toni Morrison.

I am aflame knowing about this book.

Esther Bradley-DeTally

849 - Sharel E. Gordon-Love
Location: Piscataway, NJ
Date: Feb-08-2008
Your book was reviewed and posted to Amazon, given five out of five stars!

Author O. Ajamu Jumal penned a wonderful story filled with African American history from slavery to the present, a novel filled with pertinent facts concerning the progression, successes and failures of our people.

Pasadena, California is the setting of this historical novel. African Americans migrated to from southern sta

Sharel Gorden-Love

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