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many of which involve women’s spiritual, economic, and physical health. The Circle’s inaugural meeting in Accra, Ghana, in 1989 was attended by 80 women scholars from all over the African continent ...
In many African cosmologies, time is not a straight line but a sacred circle. Life and death are not opposites but phases of ...
The Driskell Center’s latest installation blends cultures and artistic mediums, including video, sculpture and tapestry, to ...
who grew up in the central African nation of Gabon and is fascinated by indigenous spiritual practices. Now based in Montreal, the 26-year-old has been unable to return to Gabon because of the ...
Some note that as many as 20% of Africans enslaved in North America were Muslims; conversion to them represents a return to their African spiritual roots. Still others say that orthodox Islam ...
Spirituals are songs that describe the African American experience, including slavery and the fight for freedom. UTSA, by promoting this musical scholarship, continues its efforts to promote diversity ...