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"Coming Home to the Motherland: A Journey from Self-Hate"
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COMING HOME TO THE MOTHERLAND:
A JOURNEY FROM SELF HATE
By
Jim Harris
Philosophy, humor, music, culture, spiritual evolution – all from a human being with
unique perspectives and a universal experience to share…
COMING HOME TO THE MOTHERLAND: A JOURNEY FROM SELF HATE is the life story
of Jim Harris, an actor, poet, musician, trade unionist and college professor, whose 22-
year encounter with Africa offers a wealth of enduring wisdom. From his boyhood in the
American South and early days in the US Air force, to his experiences in Africa during
Zimbabwe’s independence and South Africa’s democratic transformation. Coming
Home to the Motherland is an extraordinary chronicle of the Black experience. With
humor, incisive intellect and a joyful spirit, Harris takes readers on a remarkable
odyssey of politics, music, the arts, class consciousness and racial and cultural identity
that is uniquely relevant to our modern world.
The theme of returning to Africa is deeply embedded in the African American psyche.
From the founding of Liberia and Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa” movement, to
Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, and Alex Haley’s influential television
series “Roots,” African Americans have longed to recover the inner seed of identity that is
intimately bound to the Motherland. The very impulse within gospel, blues, jazz and R&B
- as irrepressible as the soul of a people - lies at the heart of the desire to fulfill this
inherent yearning. African Americans are currently witnessing unprecedented influence
in the Motherland and gaining a broader perspective on our journey as an African
people, In Coming Home to the Motherland one finds a richness and beauty as vast and
inviting and heart warming as the continent itself. In contrast to journalistic or academic
accounts, Coming Home to the Motherland is grappling with a personal tale, conveyed
with insight, authenticity and a vulnerability that is at once deeply emotional as well as
educational. Unlike KeithRichburg’s controversial book, “Out of America,” Coming Home
to the Motherland is more organically connected to both the African American experience
and to Africa. In this way Coming Home to the Motherland is a powerful, wide-reaching
statement about African American culture and its creativity, its unique character and self-
actualization.
Jim Harris, political activist, trade unionist, university professor, philosopher and modern
day Cross-Culturalist, has returned to the United States. He has a great deal to share
as an actor, writer, lecturer, musician, humorist and story teller. There is no one else
quite like…Jim Harris
If you would like for Jim to speak to your group, school, church, library, or business,
please contact
Jim Harris & Associates
2456 Gilbert Ave. Suite 7
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206-2587
(513) 872-0574
Email: harrisj587@aol.com
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