Michael Ortiz Hill

The Village of the Water Spirits

The Dreams of African Americans

210 pages, ISBN 0-88214-553-3 / 978-0-88214-553-2, Spring Publications

Weaving scholarship and interviews with the Shona edicine man Mandaza Augustine Kandemwa, Ortiz Hill offers the recogition that, at the most intimated level, Africa has kept faith with the African-American soul.
"Using material from Bantu philosophy and the dreams of black people in North America and Africa, Michael Ortiz Hill has produced one of the most profound evocations of African-American culture." Robert Blauner, author of Black Lives, White Lives