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“There is no creation outside of people. Pretended individual creation, according to Kôngo thought, is a like and a social crime: creations are collective works, because they are people’s accumulated thoughts [Mpângulu mayîndu mantotikisa]. In other words, they germinate from collective ideas.”
-Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau, African…
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This reminds me of when he joked with the Kikôngo class about “kalu diantôtikisa”
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“The traditional social system of the Kôngo does not permit rich people to lead national or community institutions because a proverb says a rich man never talks or fights for other people’s interests unless it is to further his own interest. [Mvwâma nsusu; kanwâna, mâki mandi katânini]…”
-Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau, African Cosmology of the…
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“Individual wealth of all kinds above the accepted standard of necessary goods, is considered a crime. One says that this kind of wealth could not be accumulated without exploiting [wuka/yiba] other members of the community.”
-Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau, African Cosmology of the Bântu-Kôngo
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Family says girl, 11, was victim of hate crime after attack in North Lawndale
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Family says girl, 11, was victim of hate crime after attack in North Lawndale
Trinity Washington and her mother said she was attacked on Sept. 17 outside their home on the 1900 block of South Spaulding Avenue.
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