First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book presents background information on the beliefs, customs, traditions and cosmologies of several of Africa's peoples and then relates these findings to the novels of Toni Morrison. The work elucidates how the connection between the African root and the African American product helps to understand and to clarify many of Morrison's allusions to the culture out of which she writes.