{"title":"Tekla Mekfet","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"could-you-be-loved-book-tekla-mekfet-9781628572681","title":"Could You Be Loved","description":"\u003cp\u003ePHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, POLITICS \u0026amp; CULTURE, AFRICAN MUSIC FUNCTION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCOULD YOU BE LOVED is of all Humankind acknowledging shared origin for Progress with Peace. \" . . insightful . . incisive and instructive . . a beautiful poetic move . . brilliant . . author, poet, philosopher Tekla Mekfet relates Bob Marley's poetics to African philosophy, the Bible and the problems of Babylon as we encounter them in Jamaica and the world. . . helps to resolve the tension between the individual and the community, in Rasta poetics . . Historical memory . . clues to liberation in the present. Out of history and prophecy . . philosophy in Rastafari offers unaccustomed wide practical application.\" (Dr. Noel Erskine, Professor of Theology \u0026amp; Ethics, Emory University, USA). \" . . deep understanding of world politics . . knowledge of the world's literary works whether fiction or treatise . . wide knowledge of music of all genres . . erudite . . encyclopedic . . for every and anyone.\" (Dr. Erna Brodber, sociologist-historian-novelist, University of the West Indies).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \"In his own thoroughly original way Tekla Mekfet evokes the largesse of spirit and innovative rhetorical performances of Walt Whitman . . Whitman opened up the space of the line in American verse; he had an agile poetic persona; he was chronicler, seer, prophet. In our time Ras Mekfet is accomplishing much the same through his vision and voice.\" (Michael Kuelker, Professor of English, St. Charles Community College, Rastafari-Reggae researcher, DJ, Missouri). Structure is as vocabulary item, social commentary, music of meaning, \"Often, life is not nice neat sentences'. The index invites piece-mealing focus on such as The Word, Logic RHYTHM Household-Community, Reality, Freedom, Whiteness, or Oneness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVaried subjects are explored as symbiotic - as could be related to Spinoza's All is One and The One is Divine', to 'Selassie is The Chapel', to Hegel's 'God' dwelling within Humankind \u0026amp; permanently pervading the universe - related to shared African principles of an all-manifesting all-embracing 'NTU', or JAH of Rastrafari. Of Nature's Logic \u0026amp; Kant's 'Categorical Imperative' for universal oneness. Concept 'Babylon' de-constructed throughout, as is 'Zion'. Of 'Concrete Jungle', The City, Marketed 'God', Moral Relativity, \"life-long insecurity\". \" . . the heavy and the weary weight \/ Of all this unintelligible world \/ Is lightened.\" Mekfet invites you to be free 'of being psychologically blind. For YOU, are living of some measure \u0026amp; mix of philosophy . . that you may be living unperceived.\" to be recognized \"for sense of options for direction. .\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Mother Africa's Philosophy, Rastafari, The Bible, \u0026amp; cross-refs philosophy of West \u0026amp; East\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Philosophy in Reggae, Jazz, Dancehall Music: Atavistic Appeal African Rhythms Worldwide\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Culture of Politics, Mis-Education, Violence \u0026amp; Masculinity in 'Jamaica'\/'Carry-beyond'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- A Rastafari Journey, Jamaica \u0026amp; Social Prejudice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Animism \u0026amp; Literary Imagery. Multi-cultural imagery 'Christ'\/Re-patria-tion\/Ancestor Worship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- 'Israel' \u0026amp; 'Jerusalem' not as geographical entities, but as universal concepts for social organization related to Rhythm of Ecology \u0026amp; Bio-diversity, the Cosmos as a single organism, \u0026amp; Bio-mimicry - all antithesis of concept of 'Babylon'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher's website: \u003c\/strong\u003e http: \/\/sbprabooks.com\/TeklaMekfet\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51157203222801,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51157206073617,"sku":"NGR9781628572681","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52752292512017,"sku":"NIN9781628572681","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/162857268X.jpg?v=1751408676"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-tekla-mekfet.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}