Topic
Psychology
Psychology of African spiritual traditions: how ancestral beliefs, ritual practice, and cosmological frameworks shape consciousness, identity, and mental wellbeing.
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.
Mythology
The Negative Father Archetype in African Myth: Mwindo and Yennenga
Twelve days. That is how long it took a Nyanga bard named Shé-Kárisi Candi Rureke, in 1956, to get through the story of Mwindo — twelve days of chanting and narrating and acting out the parts, with an…