pFoday Musa Suso's majestic book is a testament to one of the kindest, most generous people I have ever met. His talent is extraordinary and his life story one that gives hope. Grounded in a sense of deep destiny and told with meticulous precision, it explores the mysterious ways that life can bring a person from a small village in Africa, steeped in tradition, to the international stage. It should be required reading for anyone interested in building bridges between people and cultures and, most of all, to connect us to the universal language of music that holds the power to heal.pp---Susan Rockefeller, filmmaker and artistppFoday Musa Suso is by lineage and training a historian, storyteller, and musician -- the sole virtuoso of West African background to establish a Chicago crossover band, and to record with Herbie Hancock, Philip Glass, and other greats. His autobiography immerses the reader as no other book I know, in village life from a child's point of view, the culture of the Ma