African Spirituality Made Simple

What is African spirituality? Or, better yet, how can we grasp the basic principles of African spirituality, without being spooked or dismissive? In this episode, African spirituality as an idea and as a life-way is made intelligible in plain language, using the analogy of water and a few props. The pathway to understanding African cultural forms and norms starts with spiritual culture.

[@ifeford6646]

I appreciate your presentation of African Spirituality.

[@poweredbynyame]

Thank you for the kind words.

[@wanderwithdaniel]

I came across your channel. I'm looking forward to learn and unlearn.

[@poweredbynyame]

Wonderful. Glad to have you onboard. Stay well.

[@wondalanda08]

Oh wow! As a fellow Ghanaian (who doesn’t know much about my people’s spiritual practices) I’m really grateful to have found you

[@poweredbynyame]

Much appreciated. Glad we found each other. Stay well.

[@teetemz]

Excellent teaching Okunini. Meda wo ase!

[@poweredbynyame]

Yoo, nnase. Tena yie.

[@tinamarie1111]

Mni wichoni is Lakota for water is life … Native Americans believe this as well . Much power in water

[@poweredbynyame]

Indeed. Water is a most powerful element.

[@jonathan7497]

Thank you so much for breaking things down in a digestible way. Keep up the good work!

[@poweredbynyame]

Thanks, will do!

[@nicoleblack5249]

I appreciated this video soooo much

[@poweredbynyame]

Thank you! Stay well.

[@DiamondNet2009]

Thank you so much!🙌🏾🤎

[@poweredbynyame]

Sure thing. Stay well.

[@nicholebondurant9788]

The graphics helped a lot also thank you for the objective explanation 🙏

[@poweredbynyame]

Glad it was helpful! Stay well.

[@IyaOmitadeIfatoosin]

Just to let you know your links do not work. I like very much your calm and the way you present your conceptions. Nice work!

[@poweredbynyame]

Appreciated. I am not aware of any links in the video or its description.

[@IyaOmitadeIfatoosin]

@@poweredbynyame sorry, it is the links that are in your reply to Gwendolyn Miller Jones.

[@goldbluetears]

Whenever I listen to you I feel I am listening to sanity, which is rare on these platfroms. LOL I have exploring the concept of personhood in terms of non human beings in indigenous cultures. In terms of your threefold nature when the river is the physical manifestation (ice) of a more fundamental animating force (gas), would the personhood (god/spirit) of the river be the water? Because there is a clear difference between a purely abstract force and a person, in terms of how human beings would relate to it. If the natural world and the cosmos is seen in terms of a diversity of personalities the element of communication, interaction and agency enters. Persons are not just some abstract forces to be used and exploited for selfish purposes and it was the classification of black peoples as non persons that allowed for the enslavement and exploitation of an entire race of people.

[@poweredbynyame]

Well, it's all water, just in densified or gaseous or liquified form. The human being is a tightly-braided interplay between energy and matter, or energy as matter. The human being is thus a composite of those forms: it is inaccurate to say most of our body is water; all of our body is water, only that 25% is the densified form of water. Indeed, our cells are mostly water.

[@gwendolynmiller-jones8021]

Thanks again, this is so timely for me. Are you available for a conversation or consultation?

[@poweredbynyame]

I am. You can reach to me (kwasikonadu.info/contact-1) or for consultations (calendly.com/nanakonadu/consultations). Stay well.

[@poweredbynyame]

Links: kwasikonadu.info/contact-1; calendly.com/nanakonadu/consultations