7 Flashcards
What is African cosmology?
African cosmology is the way Africans perceive, conceive and contemplate their universe; the lens through which they see reality, which affects their value systems and attitudinal orientations. It is the African’s search for the meaning of life.
What does African cosmology help one to do?
African cosmology helps one to understand the present situation by revisiting the past. In doing so, one can understand the past, present and predict the future.
What is the base through which one can understand African religions and spirituality?
African cosmology is the base through which one can understand African religions and spirituality. This is important because both are anchored on the traditional cosmological structure.
What does ‘traditional’ mean in the context of African traditional religion and spirituality?
‘Traditional’ does not mean ‘frozen’ in time and space or an iconological continuity with some remote ‘idyllic’ past but that which is seen as reconfiguring with time, situation and space and therefore in fluidity.
What is the relationship between God, lesser deities, ancestors, and living members in African cosmology?
African cosmology is strongly anchored on complex but necessary affiliations between God the creator, lesser deities, ancestors or the living-dead and living members of the family and community.
How do Africans draw their identity in African ontology?
Africans draw their identity by entrenching their whole existence on the creator because he is the cause of their existence.
What is emphasized in the African traditional world?
In the African traditional world, no one is ‘independent’ and no human being is alone.
What is the importance of African traditional cosmology in building communities?
African traditional cosmology can be used as a relevant tool to build genuine communities of life-force among the Africans and Afro-Caribbean in the UK and other parts of the world.
