Bøger af Fortunate Hove

The New Millennium Missionary: Passionately Pursuing the Call of God is a story of adventure in prayer and faith demonstrated in the market place where people live and interact with God on a daily basis. It captures the workings of God in uncanny ways that provoke a desire to seek God on a personal level. The story portrays the power of God to work out his plan in any institution outside the church as long as he has willing partners. The New Millennium Missionary is an ample demonstration that God desires to use anyone who is available in and outside the four walls of the church. It blends historical interactions of God with tribes and nations resulting in what we read as history today all encapsulated in the experiences of one woman who is raised from brokenness to the global mission field. A call to intercession coincides with the new millennium with specific mandates to pray for people like Andrae` Crouch, going into companies to decree the word of God. In the process of receiving the mandate to pray and intercede, opposition manifests with cruel intensity from beginning to end but victory is realized in that the author lives to tell the story. It is also a book of history as it looks at the Zimbabwean tribal history and its impact on the worship of God. The challenge of traditional institutions and their impact on the well being of an individual in the quest to worship one God when the environment throws many facets of of worship bringing a clash over the choices. The New Millennium Missionary is also a book that blends views of continental Africa and Diaspora Africa through individual experiences of fear, ignorance of how emancipated African slaves and colonized Africans can embrace without reviving the pains of history. It is clear in the book that an individual can make a difference through determination and submission to God through prayer.Prayer can take many years but there will be an answer one day, hence the character of a person is developed in the furnace of pain and uncertainty that are sharpened to eventually anchor on faith as the realization is made that the principles of God's dealings with man never change from generation to generation.Can one sector of society suffer more than others; this book examines the powerless state of the girl child in the face of modern day spiritual slavery of the spiritual spouse. It is one thing to seek deliverance for individual freedom but when it is an institutionalized practice, how does a single person fight for liberty against a governmental system?

The book looks at the traditional song Nhemamusasa, a mbira song commonly sung in Zimbabwe. It has been performed by many groups in the country of origin and many parts of the world. Fortunate Hove explores the traditional elements of the song that makes it authentically Zimbabwean and how it ties in with patterns of speech used in Shona folklore. The song brings together ancient practices of conflict resolution as well as defining gender roles in a Shona society. The period of the song coincided with a time of unrest in the country during the period of Mfecane when many Nguni regiments from Zululand broke away from Shaka, moving northwards into neighboring countries where they carried out Zulu military-style raids and abductions. The critique is a convergence of history, feminism, expressions of conflict resolution, and marriage in Shona culture.