Helen Nde

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AFRI is a small effort to encourage the brilliant and prolific African writers from older generations (55+) who have fallen through the cracks of the weak publishing infrastructure on the African continent. Are you eligible? Know someone who is? Spread the word.

All caught up with MA Podcast episodes? We dug into the LibriVox archive of African folklore this February! Thankful to all the volunteer readers. It would be lovely to have some African accents on there too! If you have time please consider volunteering ✨ mythologicalafricans.substack.com/podcast

Life, relationships, and everything else has been ridiculous this year. I don’t really have much to say about it all. I hope this poetry collection makes you smile, at least.

If you have time today ✨💕 www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/talks/myth-m...

The College of Psychic Studies : Talks : Myth magic : The crab walks the gods talk divination in afr...www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk Discover the importance of divination to African cultural systems in this talk with Helen Nde of Mythological Africans. Book today.

I use the 5Ws and 1H (What, Who, When, Why, Where and How) approach to examine different kinds of divination found across the African continent. open.substack.com/pub/mytholog...

Divination in Africaopen.substack.com Listen now (45 mins) | A non-exhaustive treatment

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New on Mythological Africans: @hm-nde.bsky.social discusses the "Bagre", the mythical & spiritual ritual performance of the Dagaaba people of Ghana/Burkina Faso/Côte d'Ivoire mythologicalafricans.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...

The Myth of the Bagre: Part 1mythologicalafricans.substack.com Listen now (51 mins) | Dagaaba traditional ecological and environmental knowing

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And if you are not yet subscribed to the Mythological Africans Substack, you are missing out! mythologicalafricans.substack.com

Mythological Africans | Substackmythologicalafricans.substack.com African Myths and Folklore: Old and New. Click to read Mythological Africans, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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One of the most valuable things I've learned from @mariecgould.bsky.social is to treat every media interpretation as a "lens" through which a piece CAN, not MUST, be understood. The exceptional work of @hm-nde.bsky.social has provided additional academic context for story analysis. I'm so grateful!

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Talking Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India on Blog Talk Radio with Lisa Kessler www.blogtalkradio.com/circle-of-se...

Ghosts, Monsters & Demons with Author Rakesh Khanna on Book Lightswww.blogtalkradio.com Rakesh Khanna grew up in Berkeley, California, of mixed Punjabi and Anglo-American heritage. He co-founded Blaft Publications in Chennai, India with his wife, Rashmi Ruth Devadasan, in 2008. The compa...

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A few woopsies in our discussion the other day!

Starting now! Mythological Africans x Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India twitter.com/i/spaces/1Yq...

ICYMI Many thanks to everyone who joined and especially to @blaft.bsky.social for making time to chat this morning! This was such a great conversation! We traced the history of Indo-African relations (it goes deep!) and discovered the stories that emerged.

See you Saturday? Hope so! 😊

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Ebooks, we have #ebooks! Available from our site, Smashwords, and the Kindle store Folklore from the state of Mizoram, pulp horror from Tamil Nadu, soyayya fiction from Kano, Nigeria, bizarre tales of exploding penguins from the mind of Kuzhali Manickavel, & more www.blaft.com/collections/...

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Read this great writeup of Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India in Exquisite Terror Magazine! The international edition is out today from Watkins! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738269...

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International edition is out from @watkinsbooks in 3 days!!! watkinspublishing.com/books/ghosts-m…

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Twitter Spaces event in 1 week! Sep 16! Blaft x Mythological Africans with @hm-nde.bsky.social We'll explore the folklore of Janjira Fort, the Ramayana in Mauritius, the African ghost of Kochi's walls, Yasuke's possible Indian childhood, and more Set a reminder x.com/i/spaces/1Yq...

Sorry to invite you all back to the dark place but @blaft.bsky.social will be there too! Get the full gist -> open.substack.com/pub/mytholog...

@blaft.bsky.social Look what came! 😍 Congratulations again! 🎊🎉🥳

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To know why we are such huge @hm-nde.bsky.social fans please check out (for example) her blog post on crab and spider divination in Cameroon

Blacksmiths, Spiders, Crabs, Cowries and Kolanut Shells: Divinatory Practices in Cameroonmythologicalafricans.medium.com Divination refers to the process of using a standardized ritual, which is itself part of a larger system of knowledge, to seek knowledge or…

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"A thrilling romp through the annals of what goes bump in the Indian night" —@hm-nde.bsky.social, curator of Mythological Africans This is SUCH a cool endorsement for Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India! International edition out soon! Ghosts, Monsters and Demons of India - Watkins Publishing

Ghosts, Monsters and Demons of India - Watkins Publishingwatkinspublishing.com An illustrated guide to the folktales and real-life stories of the ghosts, monsters and demons of India, a culture famously rich in tradition and legends. Perfect for fans of Eli Roth's Urban Legend...

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