African Cosmology Of The Bântu Kôngo

Author : Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
Publisher : Athelia Henrietta Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : IND:30000079229245

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African Cosmology of the Bântu-Kôngo by Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau Pdf

"Life is fundamentally a process of perpetual and mutual communication; and to communicate is to emit and to receive waves and radiations (minika ye minienie). This process of, receiving and releasing or passing them on (tambula ye tambikisa) is the key to human beings game of survival. A person is perpetually bathed by radiations' weight, (zitu kia minienie). The weight (zitu/demo) of radiations may have a negative as well as positive impact on any tiny being, for example a person who represents the most vibrating: "kolo" (knot) of relationships." "The following expressions are very common among the Bantu, in general, and among the Kongo in particular, which prove to us the antiquity of these concepts in the African continent; Our businesses are waved/shaken; our health is waved/shaken; what we possess is waved/shaken; the communities are waved/shaken: Where are these (negative) waves coming from (Salu bieto bieti nikunwa; mavimpi nikunwa; biltuvwidi nikunwa; makanda nikunwa: Kwe kutukanga minika miami)?" "For the Bantu, a person lives and moves within an ocean of waves/radiations. One is sensitive or immune to them. To be sensitive to waves is to be able to react negatively or positively to those waves/forces. But to be immune to surrounding waves/forces, is to be less reactive to them or not at all. These differences account for varying degrees in the process of knowing/learning among individuals" --BOOK Cover.

Author : Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Cosmology, African
ISBN : 1592324630

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African Cosmology of the Bantu-Kongo by Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau Pdf

Author : Chukwunyere Kamalu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0955713161

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A Dictionary of African Cosmology by Chukwunyere Kamalu Pdf

Author : Joyce White
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793646644

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Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat by Joyce White Pdf

Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual employs nature, literary tradition, and the cosmogram to examine Danticat's fiction as textual sites imbued with ritual and conducive for healing and clarifying Africana diasporic consciousness.

Author : Nadia Sanger,Benita Moolman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003814764

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Racism, Violence, Betrayals and New Imaginaries by Nadia Sanger,Benita Moolman Pdf

This anthology consists of academic essays, creative non-fiction, poetry and short stories on race and racism by black women from South Africa and Brazil. Through these different genres, the book engages with the complexities of race in social, political, economic, institutional and personal spaces. Concerned with social justice, human rights and freedom, these writings spotlight the amalgamation of racial, gender and class subjectivities and how these are marked, un-marked, re-marked and re-made on bodies. The book connects globally and locally to social and political phenomena in the modern-day world. The contributors interrogate their political and personal worlds, revealing layered, intersecting ways of being that were essentially centred by colonial histories but not defined in totality by coloniality and oppression. In speaking to the proximity of these experiences, they reflect and narrate the past, contemplate the present and imagine the future. This curated anthology asks questions centred around freedom. What does freedom mean? When do we have it, and when do we not? Most importantly, how do we get it? Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.

Author : Ras Michael Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107024090

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African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry by Ras Michael Brown Pdf

Examines perceptions of the natural world in ideas and practices of African-descended communities in South Carolina from the colonial period to the twentieth century.

Author : Jacob K. Olupona
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199790586

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African Religions by Jacob K. Olupona Pdf

This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.

Author : Julin Everett
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004365544

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Le Queer Impérial by Julin Everett Pdf

In Le Queer Impérial Julin Everett explores the taboo subject of male homoerotic desire between black Africans and white Europeans in francophone colonial and postcolonial literatures.

Author : Abimbola Adelakun,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319913100

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Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora by Abimbola Adelakun,Toyin Falola Pdf

This book explores the politics of artistic creativity, examining how black artists in Africa and the diaspora create art as a procedure of self-making. Essays cross continents to uncover the efflorescence of black culture in national and global contexts and in literature, film, performance, music, and visual art. Contributors place the concerns of black artists and their works within national and transnational conversations on anti-black racism, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, migration, resettlement, resistance, and transnational feminisms. Does art by the subaltern fulfill the liberatory potential that critics have ascribed to it? What other possibilities does political art offer? Together, these essays sort through the aesthetics of daily life to build a thesis that reflects the desire of black artists and cultures to remake themselves and their world.

Author : Joyce E. King,Ellen E. Swartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317445012

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The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom by Joyce E. King,Ellen E. Swartz Pdf

The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom explains and illustrates how an African worldview, as a platform for culture-based teaching and learning, helps educators to retrieve African heritage and cultural knowledge which have been historically discounted and decoupled from teaching and learning. The book has three objectives: To exemplify how each of the emancipatory pedagogies it delineates and demonstrates is supported by African worldview concepts and parallel knowledge, general understandings, values, and claims that are produced by that worldview To make African Diasporan cultural connections visible in the curriculum through numerous examples of cultural continuities––seen in the actions of Diasporan groups and individuals––that consistently exhibit an African worldview or cultural framework To provide teachers with content drawn from Africa’s legacy to humanity as a model for locating all students––and the cultures and groups they represent––as subjects in the curriculum and pedagogy of schooling This book expands the Afrocentric praxis presented in the authors’ "Re-membering" History in Teacher and Student Learning by combining "re-membered" (democratized) historical content with emancipatory pedagogies that are connected to an African cultural platform.

Author : Julio Cammarota
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030566852

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Liberatory Practices for Learning by Julio Cammarota Pdf

This book promotes collaborative ways of knowing and group accountability in learning processes to counteract the damaging effects of neoliberal individualism prevalent in educational systems today. These neoliberalist hierarchies imposed through traditional, autocratic knowledge systems have driven much of the United States’ educational policies and reforms, including STEM, high stakes testing, individual-based accountability, hierarchical grading systems, and ability grouping tracks. The net effect of such policies and reforms is an education system that perpetuates social inequalities linked with race, class, gender, and sexuality. Instead, the author suggests that accountability pushes past individualism in education by highlighting democratic methods to produce a collective good as opposed to a narrow personal success. In this democratic model, participants contribute to the common goal of elevating the entire group. Drawing from a well of creative praxes, reflexivity, and spiritual engagement, contributors incorporate collective dreaming to envision alternate realities of learning and schooling and summon the spirit into action for change.

Author : Joyce E. King,Ellen E. Swartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351213219

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Heritage Knowledge in the Curriculum by Joyce E. King,Ellen E. Swartz Pdf

Moving beyond the content integration approach of multicultural education, this text powerfully advocates for the importance of curriculum built upon authentic knowledge construction informed by the Black intellectual tradition and an African episteme. By retrieving, examining, and reconnecting the continuity of African Diasporan heritage with school knowledge, this volume aims to repair the rupture that has silenced this cultural memory in standard historiography in general and in PK-12 curriculum content and pedagogy in particular. This ethically informed curriculum approach not only allows students of African ancestry to understand where they fit in the world but also makes the accomplishments and teachings of our collective ancestors available for the benefit of all. King and Swartz provide readers with a process for making overt and explicit the values, actions, thoughts, and behaviors reflected in an African episteme that serves as the foundation for African Diasporan sociohistorical phenomenon/events. With such knowledge, teachers can conceptualize curriculum and shape instruction that locates people in all cultures as subjects with agency whose actions embody their ongoing cultural legacy.

Author : Teresa N. Washington
Publisher : Oya's Tornado
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence by Teresa N. Washington Pdf

Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence: Divinity in Africana Life, Lyrics, and Literature is a remarkable study and the first of its kind. Teresa N. Washington eschews popular culture’s pimp myths and thug sagas and traces the Africana man’s power, creativity, and consciousness to his inherent divinity. Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence takes the reader to the source of power with an analysis of African Divinities and divine technologies. Washington explores the permanence and proliferation of African Gods from oppressive plantations to the empowering proclamations of such leaders as W. D. Fard, Marcus Garvey, Father Divine, and Allah, the Father. Washington analyzes the summonses to and from the Gods that resonate in the music of such artists as Erykah Badu, The RZA, Sun Ra, X Clan, and Rakim. Using literary analysis as a prism to display the diversity of Africana divinity, Washington reveals the literature of such writers as August Wilson, Walter Mosley, Toni Morrison, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Ishmael Reed to be three-way mirrors that eternally reflect and project the Gods, their myriad powers, and their weighty responsibilities. Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence will prove indispensable to independent scholars as well as scholars of Comparative Literature, Hip Hop Studies, Gender Studies, Africana Studies, Literary Criticism, and Religious Studies.

Author : Kristine Juncker
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813055022

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Afro-Cuban Religious Arts by Kristine Juncker Pdf

This book profiles four generations of women from one Afro-Cuban religious family. From a plantation in Havana Province in the 1890s to a religious center in Spanish Harlem in the 1960s, these women were connected by their prominent roles as leaders in the religions they practiced and the dramatic ritual artwork they created. Each woman was a medium in Espiritismo—communicating with dead ancestors for guidance or insight—and also a santera, or priest of Santería, who could intervene with the oricha pantheon. Kristine Juncker argues that, by creating art for more than one religion, these women shatter the popular assumption that Afro-Caribbean religions are exclusive organizations. Most remarkably, the portraiture, sculptures, and photographs in Afro-Cuban Religious Arts offer rare glimpses into the rituals and iconography of these religions. Santería altars are closely guarded, limited to initiates, and typically destroyed upon the death of the santera, while Espiritismo artifacts are rarely considered valuable enough to pass on. The unique and protean cultural legacy detailed here reveals insights into how ritual art became popular imagery, sparked a wider dialogue about culture inheritance, attracted new practitioners, and enabled the movement to explode internationally.

Author : Venetria K. Patton
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438447377

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The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave by Venetria K. Patton Pdf

Explores black women writers’ treatment of the ancestor figure. The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave investigates the treatment of the ancestor figure in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters, Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow, Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Toni Morrison’s Beloved,Tananarive Due’s The Between, and Julie Dash’s film, Daughters of the Dust in order to understand how they draw on African cosmology and the interrelationship of ancestors, elders, and children to promote healing within the African American community. Venetria K. Patton suggests that the experience of slavery with its concomitant view of black women as “natally dead” has impacted African American women writers’ emphasis on elders and ancestors as they seek means to counteract notions of black women as somehow disconnected from the progeny of their wombs. This misperception is in part addressed via a rich kinship system, which includes the living and the dead. Patton notes an uncanny connection between depictions of elder, ancestor, and child figures in these texts and Kongo cosmology. These references suggest that these works are examples of Africanisms or African retentions, which continue to impact African American culture.