Premium Intermediate Conversational Yorùbá 201: January 18, 2021 
African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors
This group is for the exploration of classical and traditional African deep thought (what some refer to... View more
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African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors a year agoThe Sacredness of Africa
Nothing in Africa is ever ungodly or profane. So I can say profane does not exist in Africa. In old Africa, nothing is profane, everything is sacred, everything is pure, everything is spiritual. Everything has a motive, everything has a purpose, everything has a mission in life.
-The Great Nana Amadou Hampâté Bâ
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African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors a year ago · a year ago (edited)
Human beingLet’s take the human being. What is a human being? We Africans, we say the human being is the being who is both everything and nothing. He is everything because he carries a piece of The Creator power in him. And he is nothing because death keep him from getting up, death keep him from from doing anything. So the human being is…
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African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors a year agoa year ago (edited)
African His Story
If Africa do not tell his story, he will later be told a history of Africa from a European (aAmw) perspective; and not a history of Africa by Africans perspective. Europeans will makeup their own history of Africa for Africans; but not a history of Africa by Africans. Therefore, since we are not able to speak up for Africa,…
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African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors a year ago · a year ago (edited)
Death
For us, death does not exit in traditional Africa. Death does not exist. Reincarnation destroys death. Besides, we don’t say death. We say change of domicile; we say we have migrated; we have transitioned to another realm, another existence, another being. Because in traditional Africa, we are supposed to continue living for an…
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Kwabena posted an update in the group
African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors a year agoa year ago (edited)
Old Age
In African tradition, old age is called gains and losses. What you gain in experience, you loose in physical strength. When the old man turns the slope, it is said he is always going towards death; so he is descending. This is why it is said that ideas which are in old men’s heads are dead ideas. So new ideas should be sown in the minds…
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