Love's Troubadours - Karma: Book One by Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke , a powerful new women's self-discovery novel, honors Afro-Latino culture, history, music, and dance; and promotes solidarity among African American and Afro-Latino communities.
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Author Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke ’s debut novel, Love's Troubadours - Karma: Book One, pays tribute to the contributions made by Afro-Latinos to culture, history, music, and dance in the Americas. It features characters with Afro-Cuban, Afro-Mexican, and Afro-Peruvian roots. These characters offer rich dialogue peppered with references to Afro-Latino culture and history. They also work with and maintain positive relationships with African Americans that promote Black and Brown solidarity.
Love's Troubadours - Karma: Book One educates readers about Yanga, an African who ran away from his slave master in 1609 and founded the first free African township near Veracruz, Mexico. The novel gives readers an interesting history lesson about American-born African slaves who fled to Mexico in the mid 1800s. Readers also visit museums such as El Museo del Barrio in New York City and National Museum of Mexican Art (formerly known as the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum) in Chicago that exhibit Afro-Latino art. In addition, they have a chance to fall in love with the music of Afro-Cuban Jazz Musicians Mongo Santamaria and Omar Sosa, Afro-Puerto Rican Jazz Musician Willie Bobo, and Afro-Peruvian Singer Susana Baca. By the end of Love's Troubadours - Karma: Book One, readers may find themselves dancing Salsa just like the main character Karma Francois.
Love's Troubadours - Karma: Book One by Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke tells the story of Karma Francois, a thirtysomething California-born BoHo BAP (Bohemian Black American Princess) with Louisiana roots and urban debutante flair. The novel illustrates how a woman uses therapy, yoga, meditation, art, music, poetry, and support from family and friends to confront the effects of her poor life choices and embrace a spiritual journey of healing and love. It was published by iUniverse, Inc. and is available on www.amazon.com.
Love's Troubadours - Karma: Book One was written to encourage self-discovery and healing, illustrate the diversity of loving relationships (straight, lesbian, and gay), emphasize the importance of yoga and meditation practice, and cultivate HIV/AIDS awareness. It was also written to celebrate Black history, art, culture, and music; Washington, DC neighborhoods such as U Street, Shaw, Adams Morgan and Dupont Circle; and the cultural connections that African Americans share with Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America.
About the Author: Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke is a writer, artist, yoga teacher, Reiki practitioner, creativity coach, radio host, and life entrepreneur. Leeke’s passion for Afro-Latino art, culture, dance, history, music, and spirituality began after her first Spanish class and childhood trip to Puerto Rico in 1978. Since then, she has educated herself about the African presence in the Americas and traveled to Cuba as a member of the Cuba AIDS Project delegation in 2004. Leeke’s poetry appeared in Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century. She is a graduate of Morgan State University , Howard University School of Law, and Georgetown University Law Center . Her memberships include the Yoga Alliance, All Souls Unitarian Church , People of Color Sangha of Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC, and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. She lives in Washington, DC’s historic U Street neighborhood.
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