I was going to write a biography about my life, but as I was sitting at work one day, the Lord spoke to me and told me to write how my people are using me for selfish gain. And living large, my people are getting a lack of knowledge about me. So this book is not about me but all to the Glory of our Lord and Savior. You see, Jesus was in the temple, and out of all the things he turned over, I wondered why he went straight to the money table first. We should not use his temple for a den of thieves, he said. So this book is dedicated to help someone out there thats pimping Gods Word and deceiving his people and the kingdom and come to repent and do right by Gods people. Come clean. God forgives. This book is not to defend you, but to save you.

Manchild in the Promised Landis indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. When the book was first published in 1965, it was praised for its realistic portrayal of Harlem - the children, young people, hardworking parents; the hustlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and numbers runners; the police; the violence, sex, and humour. The book continues to resonate generations later, not only because of its fierce and dignified anger, not only because the struggles of urban youth are as deeply felt today as they were in Brown's time, but also because the book is affirmative and inspiring. Here is the story about the one who "made it," the boy who kept landing on his feet and became a man.

Cutting across the humanities and social sciences, and situated in sites across the black diaspora, the work in this book collectively challenges notions that we are living in a post-racial age and instead argue for the specificity of black cultural experiences as shaped by gender and sex.

Return Of A Dead Pimp", centers around the story's central character, Jay Priest, a pimp who ends up winning the 1976 "International Player's Ball". After emerging victorious, Jay takes his pimping talents overseas, opening up a chain of brothels, aptly called, "Jack Off In The Box". Hating to see a black entrepreneur become a billionaire, the government decides to kill Jay's older brother, back home in Michigan, by having him get electrocuted at the automotive plant where he works.

Why not then remain pure in body, if not in heart? For one, my marriage had made me cynical; for another, my faith was no longer unassailable. Never having heard God say anything, I found too many contradictions in the body of theological non-knowledge as interpreted by Baptist doctrine. I was ready to stray, the principal deterrent being my childhood training, or lack of it. I knew only what they told me. And about women, they told me precious little. How could I conceal from myself that the ever present, all powerful, all knowing God of my sermons-that personal, loving Father-was a stranger to me, even as I insisted that my listeners must surrender to Him or face eternal damnation and punishment? Would I spend the rest of my life as a sexually frustrated hypocrite? Should I continue to preach and pray when I was convinced that Prayer Changes Nothing? Or should I be the real me and sample some of the pleasurable bounty of God's creations? One vote for pleasure. It's unanimous and so ordered.

A horrific tale of childhood despair, Our Mother... His Fool is a saga of mother-made poverty, manipulation, mental abuse, depravity, scorn, and misery. This is an account of the life of nine children and how one woman’s search for love and marriage doomed them to over twenty years of exploitation, cruelty, and neglect. “The Pulpit Nemesis” was the black hole of The Gainous Clan sucking the very life from them. He treated them as if they were his personal slaves. They built an empire for him as their world crumpled at his feet. Aside from constantly promising marriage to Annastein, he was well known for “keeping company” with the single women in the church, stealing their time and money as well. His affections didn’t rest with just the single women of the church. He had a special plan for seducing and manipulating the “Seven” sisters of the Gainous Clan. The Reverend, well known for "pimping his flock from the pulpit". How is this family able to reclaim their adult lives? Or can they?

The Reverend's Apprentice, the third novel by David N. Odhiambo, is a powerful, tragicomic novel about power, culture, and identity politics in contemporary America, as seen through the eyes of an African student. Jonah Ayot is a graduate student from a fictional central African nation, studying in a fictional American city some time after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003; the novel mirrors Jonah's own struggle as a newcomer to American life, trying to organize his perceptions around an identity that is global rather than parochial. But those perceptions become muddied in the reality of the new war zone - on American soil, where the foreign becomes familiar, and the familiar is no longer what it used to be. Dissonant, frantic, and full of the white noise of a culture at war with itself, The Reverend's Apprentice takes the familiar story of the stranger in a strange land to new, disturbing, breathtaking new levels. The American magazine Black Issues Book Review has said: ''David Odhiambo joins a third guard of African novelists made up of peers like Uganda's Moses Isegawa and Nigeria's Chris Abani. The books of this younger generation of African writers (heirs to the continent's greats from Chinua Achebe to Mark Mathabane) shed the starched language and steep romanticism of Africa's literary tradition to expose the rawer, hipper, more vulgar aspects of life as lived by most Africans today.''

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