Important lessons on Africa

Africans were able to examine what happened around them and oriented that to the present need, they did not have to suffer the stress of what was to happen tommorrow. It was always about the past and the present from which they would source knowldege. http://ctl.du.edu/spirituals/literature/time.cfm

The individual was part of the whole,; the generation of his past and wha was to come. He or she was inseparable from the rest of the community. National identify was derrived from one's identification from his or her ethinic group or tribe, and extended village communities. There was strong interconnectedness btn the community and the individual. African shared basic values especially ontology which demanded esistence of the community. The African sense of being in the world was religious, spiritual. http://ctl.du.edu/spirituals/literature/time.cfm

Spiritism was manifested in natural features. All Africans are essentially aetheists, from recognizing human limitations and acknowledgement of the forces around them. Parents were highly involves in the selection of marriage partners for their cildren to ensure expation of the clan. Natual calamities are associated to somethingthat has gone morally wrong to the individual or community. http://blojlu.wordpress.com/news-makers/review-of-john-s-mbiti-introduction-to-african-religion/

Children were of supreme importance to africans. Regardless of he qualities of children they had, they all meant a blessin from God. Extended family relations was highly commn in Africa. Everything was highly linke to everyone else, either living or dead through a complex network of spiritual relationship. natureal features were sanctuaries of gods and places of worship eg lakes, forests, fields, lakes and oceans. http://www.crvp.org/book/Series02/II-3/chapter_v.htm

1600s was the period when the luo from south sudan moved southwards and mingled with communitues in the far south, including Bunyoro and Buganda.http://www.ugandamission.net/aboutug/histimeline.html

Religion entered into everyday life of Africans. J. O. Awolalu. What is African Traditional Religion? Studies in Comparative Religion, Vol. 10, No. 2. (Spring, 1976). © World Wisdom, Inc.