Topic
Creation
African creation myths explain cosmic origins, gods, and humanity's place. Scholarly analysis, cosmologies, comparative mythology, and framework research.
Creation
Unkulunkulu: The Zulu First Ancestor Who Came From the Reeds
In a church in KwaZulu-Natal, a congregation sings a name older than the hymn carrying it. Two valleys away, an elder uses that same word in an ordinary sentence about where the family came from.
Fon
Mawu-Lisa: Is the Fon Creator of Benin One God or Two?
A calabash is an ordinary thing. Split a gourd, dry the two halves, and you have bowls — one for water, one for grain.