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Drum Beats, Heart Beats (Dancing Soul Trilogy) (Volume 3)
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About Drum Beats, Heart Beats
Product Description In this final volume of The Dancing Soul Trilogy, we join an ever insightful and passionate Nhambu as she traverses diverse cultures and continents and negotiates a complex and shifting web of mixed identities—African immigrant and African American—through marriage, parenthood, and the search for the father she has never known. Through trauma and triumph, love and betrayal, the “Drum Beats” and “Heart Beats” of her native Africa lead her on an ultimate journey of transcendence that will enthrall and inspire readers around the world. Review We know her times of loneliness, neglect, confusion, and sadness, and we watch as she faces challenge after challenge that could easily have broken her spirit. Her story of resilience and faith will bring hope to many. --Marian Wright Edelman, President and Founder Children's Defense Fund To hear Maria's truth in every chapter of her life has inspired thousands of us to face discouragement, danger, loneliness, illness and hardship...with joy and love! --Ruth Stricker Dayton, Founder, Owner and Executive Director of The Marsh - A Center for Balance and Fitness Guests at my Rancho La Puerta fitness spa have long raved about the amazing spirit, joy and soul of Maria Nhambu and her Aerobics With Soul(R) Dance Program. --Deborah Szekely, Co-Founder, Rancho La Puerta Fitness Resort and Spa, Tecate, Mexico Nhambu's memoir is full of lessons about life for all of us--a child slowly becomes aware of the injustice of her birthright, an adolescent learns to prosper in unfamiliar places and among unfamiliar people, an adult drinks deeply of discovery and disappointment, and throughout it all, a strong girl and then a strong woman keeps faith with herself in the face of obstacles. Drum Beats, Heart Beatsmakes clear that Fat Mary is not a metaphor but has been a reliable guide in Nhambu's life. It raises the question for the reader whether such a guiding spirit may not reside deep within all of us, if only we would be open to it. She was deprived of the love of a mother. Yet, she has always had the wisdom and the inner strength to have become a loving mother and grandmother, and the best friend anyone can have. --Dr. Margaret M. Wong, Foreign Language Teacher, Director of International Education Drum Beats, Heart Beatscompletes a remarkable autobiography--certainly unlike any I have ever read. This is a life journey that began by describing a childhood well outside the experience of most readers, continued with life-changing surprises, and now concludes with an affirming story of discovery and self-discovery. But it is more than one person's story. The reader will gain insights into some of the cultural norms that surround us, and into the evolution of our own closest relationships. --Walter Graff, LL.B. As Maria Nhambu does in her first two books, Africa's Childand America's Daughter, she continues to share her life's journey with honesty and great courage! In Drum Beats, Hearts Beats, the last volume, she writes straight from the heart, telling the good, the bad, and the ugly in her life. Through it all she kept the faith! --Carletta Smith, MSW, Retired, Minneapolis Public Schools The author of Drum Beats, Heart Beatshas the literary gift and passion to expose the intimate. While she embraces America and dances to its heartbeat, the essence of her soul remains in Africa. Maria Nhambu is Africa's Child. --James M. Gayes, M.D. About the Author Maria Nhambu was born in Tanzania, East Africa, and raised in an orphanage for biracial children. Her passion for African dance, art, and culture inspired her to create the popular workout Aerobics With Soul®, and teach African Studies in America. She has made sharing her love of Africa and its culture and rhythms the focus of her life. In that role she gives African dance presentations and speaks about Africa to groups across the U.S. and around the world.
