PUBLISHED BOOKS
Mooi Loop: The Sacred Art of Vetkat Regopstaan Kruiper
by Belinda kruiper & Vetkat regopstaan boesman kruiper
Global Voice Foundation helped fund the printing as well as the "vegetables" eaten on the sands of the Kalahari Desert as Vetkat drew and Belinda Kruiper wrote and organized the book Mooi Loop: The Sacred Art of Vetkat Regopstaan Kruiper.
Originally written in Afrikaans, and now accompanied with English translations, Mooi Loop is a fully bilingual book that celebrates the life and artwork of the late Vetkat Regopstaan Kruiper, a Bush-man. The book contains original, finely detailed, and hand-colored drawings in Vetkat's unique style. The silhouetted imagery demonstrates linkages to the rock art scattered throughout South Africa. Some of the art collages reprinted in the book have never been seen by the general public. Most of the book's poetry is reprinted in the original handwriting of the artist. With each turn of the page, the book follows both a visual and visceral path where beautiful surprises will await the reader on the journey through Mooi Loop.
Vetkat and Belinda Kruiper
Vetkat's ostrich eggs
Kalahari Rainsong
by belinda kruiper & elana bregin
One of Global Voice’s wisdomkeepers, Vetkat Kruiper illustrated the cover of Elana Bregin and Belinda Kruiper’s Kalahari Rainsong published by University KwaZulu Natal in 2004. Murphy spoke on behalf of Vetkat’s artwork at the launch of this book in Johannesburg. The book explores the complex reality of the Khomani Bushman community that Belinda is a part of. This moving and unusual story brings together the voices of two South African women, different in background, connected in spirit, as they weave together a range of narrative styles and strands - mythic, political, and anecdotal. Through the telling of her own personal journey, Belinda Kruiper evokes the traces of our divided past in the continuing struggles for survival of the Bushmen people of today.
Why Ostriches Don’t Fly
by I. Murphy lewis
Why Ostriches Don’t Fly (Libraries Unlimited 1997) by I. Murphy Lewis is a young adults’ book chronicling the history, stories and myths of the Kalahari San Bushmen.
Ancestors of the nomadic group called San (or Bushmen) were once thought to roam the throughout Africa. Now they inhabit the Kalahari Desert (the place that dried up long ago) in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. These fascinating people are known for their astonishing memory, extraordinary talents for hunting and tracking, superior abilities for finding food and water, and great storytelling. Here then is a portrait of one of the world's oldest and most remarkable cultures and its environment. The group's history, nomadic way of life, beliefs, customs, and stories of the people, the animals and their land are offered to readers with exquisite illustrations and color photographs also by Murphy. Fifteen traditional tales, such as “The Rain Bull,” “The First Tug-of-War,” “In Search of the Golden Prize,” and “All the Stars of Heaven,” are presented in poetic verse and juxtaposed with commentary on the challenges this group faces today. The author has also included a glossary and a bibliography of resources for further study.
*Takes two weeks delivery due to Print On Demand
NanTu and AujuJAI
by alejandro taish mayaprua
This tri-lingual children’s book, illustrated by Achuar children, relates a traditional myth of the Achuar people from the Amazon rainforest, and will educate elementary and middle school children about the Achuar culture and environment. The Achuar language, written down for the very first time in this book, is translated into Spanish and English, to help preserve their language and culture. All proceeds go to Achuar education projects. (Arutam Press, 2004)
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Global Voice Foundation assisted in the funding of the publication of Nanju and Auju for the Achuar People of Ecuador.
“Who’s the greatest of Them all”
A chapter in Windows to the Wolrd: Themes for teaching cross cultural understanding
by brooke sarno, John and phyllis kepler
Good Year Books - 1996
The purpose of this book is to help equip students with some of the concepts, attitudes and skills for successful cross-cultural understanding. The emphasis is on the exploration of cultural perspectives, both of themselves and others. The book is divided into chapters devoted to particular themes and uses the kaleidoscope of various world cultures as examples for each of the themes. The focus is on the culture only insofar as it illustrates the central theme and is not an exhaustive study of any one culture.
Who’s the greatest of them all is a tale from Why Ostriches Don’t Fly.
BOOKS TO COME
Across the Divide to the Divine: An African Initiation
by i. murphy lewis, ph.d.
may 14, 2024
An American based in Paris, I. Murphy Lewis, author of the Young Adult book: Why Ostriches Don’t Fly: And Other Tales from the African Bush goes bold here, goes audacious in her attempt to heal the fractures of her mind, as a NYC Executive in the Fashion Industry she takes herself to Africa in search of a story, in search of something to make what is “wrong” inside, “right.”
10 percent of the sales go to GVF to further fund indigenous books. (IML Publications, 2004)
Notes from afar
by I. murphy lewis - Herbert Brauer - Willem Barnard
2025
Songs and stories of the Kalahari peoples
Photographs by Herbert Brauer
Music recordings published by Willem Barnard
Memoir of Dr. I. Murphy Lewis
10 percent of the sales will fund indigenous project through GVF
Mantis @ Play
in the sands of the kalahari: the bushmen’s trickster god
by i. murphy lewis
2026
A book about the San Bushmen's trickster god.
“And always
Mantis would have
a dream, “they told me in the
desert. “And the dream would
show him what to do”
— Laurens van der Post A Mantis Carol
Save “mine” future: poetic reverberations before, after and during the liberian war
by james makor
February 2025
Save “Mine” Future: Poetic Reverberations Before, During and After the Liberian War by James Makor a Liberian Peacemaker, about the underlying mythological conflict resulting in the Liberian Civil War.
In May of 1990, during his seventh semester at the University of Liberia (Fendell Campus), studies were disrupted fearing an attack from the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL). In Monrovia, his family survived witnessing food shortages, a closure of embassies, many killings, and arsine attacks. In July, they had hoped, reaching Fendell, that this ordeal would come to an end, but this was not the safe haven promised. Though heavy rainfall and hunger, they continued their marathon walk towards Kakata. Here, they rested with relatives while waiting five days to receive ration from the NPFL. Energized after a few days of eating and resting, they resumed their journey. After two hours of walking, a supply truck heading northwards, gave them a lift in exchange for the few canned goods. However, at Gbarnga Gate, Gbarnga appeared to be a ghost town. Panicking, they agreed to head to the village, Weinsue, where they arrived just before nightfall. At Weinsue, their travel permit was recorded and they were given rice and spent the night. Late the next day, they arrived rejoicing at their final destination, in a familiar community, his hometown, Farvay, remaining there for four months. To escape harassment, James went back to Gbarnga for two years until the “Octopus Attack” in October of 1992. During the continuous air raids and attack from all fronts, he left for the Ivorian border becoming a registered refugee in Danané, La Côte D’Ivoire. Here, he had time to focus on his writings and this book took form.
GVF publications in conjunction with IML Publications
khaak
by mahdi
May 13, 2024
Khaak by Mahdi (Spring 2024) inspired by the heinous attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan that devoured the lives of more than 155 children and teachers by the Terrorist organization called TTP(Tehrik-i-Taliban) on December 16,2014.
Janat Gul has not moved on after her son Zufash got brutally murdered in the terror attack. She transfuses her life into what is unreal by standing outside the school gates every day in hopes of finding her son. She borrows just enough reality from the breathing world to make her dead son insensibly seem alive. Within seconds, Zufash's life was torn away (along with those like him), in the hands of Bahadur alias Khaakzad; a Waziri terrorist who deemed this pursuit futile.
The readers will guess the actual culprit almost immediately. However, Bahadur's peculiar journey from the time-hallowed shrine of the past, of being an innocent seven-year-old shepherd boy to a heartless terrorist Khaakzad (Dust-clad) lay almost wholly in the narrative. It mirrors the struggles, the rapture and the gloom within his own heart; the sub plot is the crucible in which his thoughts and emotions are fused and molded into words. But will it be an ideal personage for him to powerfully drive the readers’ imagination into a conceivable awakening and hold them accountable for their immediate judgment without appealing to their primal sympathies for Zufash?
10 percent of sales will fund GVF indigenous projects.
Winner of the IML Publications Fiction award 2002