PHEMBA, THE NURTURING MOTHER IN YOMBE SOCIETY
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A JOURNEY THROUGH FEMININE SYMBOLISM Depictions of ‘mother and child’ are commonly found in numerous cultures, reimagined multiple times over the course of history. As well as recalling this universal image, each civilization uses the ‘mother and child’ to emphasise the specificities of its own history, making a direct connection with the moment of origin as told in its creation myth. Alain Naoum