Through The Healing Wisdom of Africa, readers can come to understand that the life of indigenous and traditional people is a paradigm for an intimate relationship with the natural world that both surrounds us and is winthin us. This acclaimed book is the most distinctive and complete study of the role ritual plays in the lives of African people - and the role it can play for seekers in the West.

Malidoma Patrice Somé is from Burkina Faso, West Africa. In his native launguae, Malidoma means "be friends with the stranger." A gifted medicine man of the Dagara tribe, he holds three master's degrees and two doctorates, from the Sorbonne and Brandeis. The author of Of Water and Spirit, he divides his time among his home in Oakland, California, and Europe and the nations of Africa.

"Profoundly wise and fascinating ... Malidoma Patrice Somé has delivered an incomparably meaningful gift to us wanderers and seekers in the West ... The Healing Wisdom of Africa means the ancestors still care about us, and want to help us grown. They have sent Malidoma far from home to remind us where home is." -- Alice Walker

"An amazing bridge over the chasm of modern isolation. Malidoma reawakens the rituals of the heart. This is profound, brilliant, and accessible medicine for us." -- Jack Kornfield

"All of his sentences are filled with knowledge of the Other World. Through him we understand emotion as a form of Spirit." -- Robert Bly