In this exciting lecture series, multi-award-winning scholar Ɔbenfo (Professor) Ọbádélé Kambon will guide attendees through the core principles, modes, patterns, and history of thought and knowledge production in Afrika. We will closely examine a variety of fundamentally Afrikan concepts and ideas and be given the tools to apply this ancient knowledge to not only our own ways of organising knowledge but our everyday lived experience also. At the end of the course, attendees will have acquired an understanding of the cosmology underpinning Afrikan Thought and Philosophy, the concept of the person as multiple selves and how divinity and nature come together as one of the key tenets of Afrikan epistemology.

Three online lectures covering the following:

1. Concepts of The Person: The Person as a Multiple Selves

• The Multiple Selves of Afrikan Thought
• The Destiny or Spiritual Double
• The Soul or Breath
• The Heart
• The Ancestral Guardian
• The Shadow

2.Divinity & Nature: Ancient & Traditional Accounts of the Beginning

• Classical Kemet
• Bambara of Mali
• Yoruba of Nigeria
• Kuba of Zaire (Congo DRC)
• Dogon of Mali
• Fon of Benin
• Igbo of Nigeria
• Songye of Zaire (Congo DRC)

3. Common Elements in Afrikan Cosmology

• The Primeval Water, the Life-Force, the Void and Continuum Transmission of the Life-Force
• The Four Primordial Elements/Ancestors
• Chaos and Order
• Concert of Opposites
• Divine Intelligence/Logos/Word

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