Return to Source - by Araba Ofori-Acquah (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Return To Source invites Black people around the world to reconnect with their lost heritage and find healing, self-love and transformation.

This book is an empowering call to journey home to a new way of looking after yourself. A new way that is, in fact, the old way.

Globally, Africans and Diasporans are rediscovering that, even while navigating an oppressive and often unsafe world, we are called to make space for healing, not just for ourselves but also for loved ones, Ancestors and descendants. Our path to liberation includes a commitment to nurturing our personal and community growth by making wellness a priority. In this powerful book, Araba Ofori-Acquah will help you to:

• embark on a spiritual, emotional and - for some - physical journey back to the Motherland, back to your heritage, back to yourself, back to source

• unlock your potential with the power of an African-centred approach to wellness

• incorporate the three seeds of African wellness - music and movement, Mother Earth and magick - into your routine

• demystify and undo the demonisation of African beliefs, rituals and practices

• create a path to healing that feels most authentic to you

Discover how to live well - in accordance with African traditions - and find power, healing and alignment through your Return to Source.

Review Quotes

The veil is being lifted. We are now experiencing what I call an African Renaissance. A rebirth of art, fashion, food, writing, myth, magic and wisdom teachings. What was once deemed primitive is finally recognized for the Healing power and wellness it induces. Araba Ofori-Acquah's book Return to Source is part of the wave that is returning us to Africa. And in these pages, you will find a helpful reworking of wellness tools for black people direct from the Source. - Caroline Shola Arewa, author of Opening to Spirit and Energy 4 Life

Return to Source is a very important book. It makes African Spirituality accessible to the reader. [Araba] returns us to the Original Principles of the Culture, those ideas that can be found everywhere. She recounts the challenges the culture has endured and clarifies the gifts that have come out of that struggle. And most important, she returns to those Principles and provides the reader with guidelines to apply that wisdom to the requirements of contemporary life. It is an easy read, a pleasurable read, and a very necessary one. Enjoy and be enriched. - Yeye Luisah Teish, author of Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals

With Return to Source, Araba Ofori-Acquah gifts us with sacred ancestral medicine on the page. At this very moment the majority of our human brothers and sisters are crying out for reconnection - to ourselves, to each other, to the Source of All That Is. I am proud and excited to add this book to my favorite inspirational offerings. I highly recommend that you do the same. This is wellness custom-made for us. And for this sacred offering, I am so very grateful. - Abiola Abrams, award-winning author of African Goddess Initiation and African Goddess Rising Oracle

A feast has been prepared! A soul nourishing and enriching journey into the wellness teachings of the Motherland -- for Her yearning children. - Londrelle, poet, musician and author of Eternal Sunshine and Self Care Package

About the Author

Araba Ofori-Acquah is a healer and writer based in Accra, Ghana. She is the creator of the Adinkra Oracle Deck, a first-of-its-kind card deck inspired by ancient African wisdom, and Self-Care Sunday, a one-day wellness festival in Accra. @araba.oa