The Voices of Martyrs, Maurice Broaddus
The Voices of Martyrs, Maurice Broaddus
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The Voices of Martyrs

Author: Maurice Broaddus

Narrator: Karen Chilton, Julian Elfer, Leon Nixon

Unabridged: 8 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/24/2022


Synopsis

We are a collection of voices, the assembled history of the many voices that have spoken into our lives and shaped us. Voices of the past, voices of the present, and voices of the future. There is an African proverb, “Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi,” which translates as “It is not wrong to go back for that which you have
forgotten.” This is why we continue to remember the tales of struggle and tales of perseverance, even as we look to tales of hope. What a people choose to remember about its past, the stories they pass down, informs who they are and sets the boundaries of their identity. We remember the pain of our past to
mourn, to heal, and to learn. Only in that way can we ensure the same mistakes are not repeated. The voices make up our stories. The stories make up who we are. A collected voice.

About Maurice Broaddus

MAURICE BROADDUS is a fantasy and horror author best known for his short fiction and his Knights of Breton Court novel trilogy. He has published dozens of stories in magazines and book anthologies, including in Asimov's Science Fiction, Black Static, and Weird Tales.Broaddus was born in London, but grew up in Indianapolis. His mother is from Jamaica, where she and many of his relatives still live.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lis

One of the fun things about reviewing books is that you can be offered a book for review that you might never have noticed on your own. For me, this is one such book. It's a collection of short stories with settings ranging from ancient Africa to the slave trade, to the Jim Crow era in the US to alte......more

[URL not allowed] I received this book from Netgalley PROS: BEAUTIFUL AND RICH BLACK HISTORY! Like oh man… wow. This book had three settings, the past, the present and the future and in all three of them you have black POV’s and you get to learn about their culture and their his......more

I absolutely adored this book when I started it. All the short stories in the "Past" and "Present" sub section of the book were haunting and beautiful BUT when I read Pimp My Airship which is the first short story under "Future" I came across a character named Knowledge Allah... Needless to say, as a......more