The force responsible for starting life, as we know it on the planet earth, starts from the incredible ball of gas called sun, 93 million miles from the earth. The dynamism of the boiling and spurting sun-ball starts at the hottest core of the sun. The boiling creates...
By David G Maillu Of all the African tribes still alive today, the Himba of Namibia in southern Africa is one of the few that counts the birth date of children not from the day they are born nor conceived but the day the mothers decide to have them. When a Himba woman...
Diviners are the agents of unveiling mysteries of human life. As a rule, divination is done as part of wider functions, especially of medical nature. Diviners' unveiling of mysteries is done through the use of mediums, oracles, divination objects, commonsense,...
By David Maillu Published December 11, 2017 Worship through femininity is central in African culture. In order to understand this better we must consider the leading African legend regarding the genesis of the world, human life and all other lives. In that legend the...
Forgiveness has limitations in African Religion. That is, there are evils which can be forgiven and others which cannot be forgiven. Furthermore, there are sins which are regarded as for individual that require individual forgiveness and others regarded as sins...
By David Maillu Published July 9, 2017 Since life immemorial African culture has been receiving its new born human religiously. This is because we believe that new born being is a new breath and necessary wave of the cosmos; and, like each cell in the human body, that...
By David G Maillu It appears that Africans are not yet out of cultural enslavement by the western colonial storm. Colonial enslavement recruited its missionary intellectuals to pick up and finish the job of cultural distortion and destruction from where departing...
By David G Maillu A substantial part of what has been generally described as witchcraft in our traditional society, is material obtained scientifically through biochemistry. I hereby dare present a taste of one of the most intriguing manufacture of the witchcraft...
Why do we dream? Dreams, big or small, are unfolding waves of the many faces of the Supreme Energy which we call Nature or God. Everything that nature brings to us must have a meaning, an understandable or hidden meaning, abstract or direct. In other words, Nature...