Exploring the intricacies of the African culture with universal applications across ethnic, racial and social delimitations. African Cultural Knowledge Themes and Embedded Beliefs Compiled and Edited by Michael C. Kirwen |
The fifteen-theme structure of African Cultural Knowledge can be understood as a paradigm of the very nature of human cultures, and as an
explanation of socio-cultural integration and development. |
It is this shared cultural knowledge that is the fundamental source of the
cosmic and spiritual unity of more than half a billion African people. |
Also by way of comparison, these beliefs coincide with the underpinning lived values,
ideals and beliefs of many spiritualities worldwide, including those of Christianity
and Islam. |
As a result of this publication there is now a holistic understanding and explanation
of how African cultural knowledge promotes behavior and interprets the experiences
of the ordinary African person from birth to death and beyond. |