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At the center of this story of stories is a village of mythical nomads who move around Africa among what are called “places of SpiritWill” which are on the path humans followed as they moved from being “in knowing” and at ease with their connection with the universe to becoming “with knowledge” and hence, separate from each other and from the “All that is All.” The nomad villagers were the only humans who kept their knowing while still attaining knowledge. At the center of the village’s cast of artists, musicians, soothsayer/chef, yogis and elder storytellers is Mari-ama, a young girl who is being trained for her role as the next teller of stories. Seeking the village are “outsiders,” including LaLeet, a poet who believes that the village is real, and Mari-ama’s father, Hawk, who willingly allowed her mother to take her away when she was a baby. Now, Hawk wants both Mari-ama and her mother back and has enlisted his friend Ernest to help him trek across Africa to find them. NOMADS is a modern story that mixes humor, intellectual insight and spiritual contemplation as it links humanity’s beginnings in Africa with the contemporary knowledge that remains there
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