{"product_id":"marriage-of-musical-cultural-samuel-siafa-taylor-9780228865315","title":"Marriage of Musical \u0026 Cultural Destinies: A Book of Success Stories of Ex-Liberian Refugees","description":"\u003cp\u003eA biography of two success stories of ex-Liberian refugees: Samuel Siafa Taylor \u0026amp; Emmanuel Blessed Lavelah, the most famous marriage of musical \u0026amp; cultural destinies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the origins and development of these two individuals' energy, they have been extremely objective in engaging a positive and creative lifestyle regarding their difficulties as refugees, but they were still able to come together in their artistic ideology for readers of all stripes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe commonality of their artistic and cultural ideology, as featured in this biographical work, and the length of their professional friendship are the bases of the shared decision to co-author this book. They connected during their respective refugee lives, first meeting at a cultural festival in Togo, and later migrating together to Ghana, where they lived together in the same room in Buduburam (Ghana's refugee camp) for a long time and did several collaborations with different professional callings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile compiling records for this jointly written book, they were in different countries, Samuel Siafa Taylor in China, and Emmanuel Blessed Lavelah in Liberia. But they continued collaborating for self-development and for the artistic growth of their common denominator: Liberia. Each person's biography is on his side of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book begins with a background of Liberia's civil war, which pushed each of us to a foreign country where God connected us on through our shared artistic and cultural ideologies. This was followed by a historical sketch of Ghana's refugee community, inhabited first by Liberians, when each person's talent was nurtured and matured to a profession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe active verbs in the main narratives of the book show that the authors were still in the refugee camp when the records were being compiled. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor this book, the authors found information about the plight of China-based Liberians and other Africans (during COVID-19) and popular pre-war Liberian musicians, cultural performers, and writers from Wikipedia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel Siafa Taylor, Emmanuel Blessed Lavelah, Samuel G. Dweh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022886531X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780228865315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tellwell Talent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Samuel Siafa Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43981941965055,"sku":"9780228865315","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_acbd271b-a6b1-4929-abf8-64e7a1746826.jpg?v=1683258384","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/marriage-of-musical-cultural-samuel-siafa-taylor-9780228865315","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}