Rituals & rites
Rituals & rites
Naming ceremonies, initiations, festivals, healing — the moments where belief becomes something a community does together, described with care and never as a how-to.
Diaspora
Jungian Archetypes in African Myth: A Diaspora Reader's Guide
African myth does not illustrate Jungian archetypes. In several places, it corrects them. That is a large claim to open with, and the rest of this piece is me earning it.
Diaspora
Magical Realism and Jungian Archetypes in African Storytelling
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world.
Motherhood
Jungian Archetypes and the African Mother: How Authority Forms
In more than one household I have sat in, an argument has ended the same way. Someone older, usually a woman, says one short sentence, and the room puts the fight down. Nobody voted.
Not sure where to start?
Begin at Origins. Every other thread makes more sense once you know how each people says the world began.