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Libation : An Afrikan Ritual of Heritage in the Circle of Life - Kimani S. K. Nehusi

Libation

An Afrikan Ritual of Heritage in the Circle of Life

By: Kimani S. K. Nehusi

eText | 28 December 2015 | Edition Number 1

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This book concerns the origins, structure, purpose, meaning, and significance of libation, developments and change within the ritual, and its distribution in the Afrikan world. Libation is a liquid offering by and behalf of all humanity, those living and those yet-to-be-born, to the Creator, to other divinities, to ancestors, and to the environment. Through this ritual Afrikans af?rm and re-establish cosmic balance, interconnection and interdependence: the harmony and balance, connection and interdependency within, between and among humans, the environment, the spirit world, and the Creator. The text connects the practice of libation throughout the prodigious time/space correlation occupied by the Afrikan experience of life, connects Afrikans to their social history, and so to themselves across generations in different spaces and times. The methodology is at once both multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary. The methods and techniques of history, linguistics, cultural studies, literature and other human sciences are deployed to develop a comprehensive reconstruction, description and analysis of a ritual that has long been antique, but has never become antiquated.
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Professor Nehusi has written a powerful book on a most ancient and critical Afrikan ritual, libation. He masterfully demonstrates that libation must be understood within the Afrikan worldview and its emphasis on ontological unity and life eternal. Furthermore, his argument about the importance of cultural reclamation in the process of Afrikan renaissance is both timely and compelling.
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