“Therefore it is natural to treat the physical environment as a living, breathing and sacred entity according to the tradition handed down by our ancestors. That is why Afrikans have always revered nature and treated Mother Earth as a sentient being. Relations to the earth are simultaneously ecological, spiritual and social relations. In the… Read more

From the book “Libation: An Afrikan Ritual Heritage in the Circle of Life” by Nana Kimani Nehusi,

“In fact, as we shall shortly see, libation is founded upon two elementary and demonstrable truths about the cosmos. The first is that the universe is a single integrated whole composed of interdependent elements. The second is that to impair any… Read more