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Congo: A Journey to Our Deepest Roots

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Product Code: 9781948828673
ISBN13: 9781948828673
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The author lived seven years in the Congo as a servant of the Belgian government. He fostered deep bonds with the primitive Sonde tribe and gained the full confidence of Kianza, their illiterate tribal chief, who inspired this book. The deep knowledge of the earliest African life is lost forever because those who knew it could not write and those who had learned to write never knew it. Primitive African life is now overshadowed by a brand new "Africa in transition." This development took less than 75 years. Original tribal life in Africa is covered with a handful of stories as told by the chief and his father. The social hierarchy of the tribe, their laws and enforcement, worship and witchcraft, slavery and the role of ghosts, initiation processes into manhood and various secret societies get to the glue that secured the social order of a tribe that was only one step beyond the original hunter-gatherer's way of life.

Author: Hugo Daems
Publisher: Hugo Daems
Publication Date: Jun 18, 2019
Number of Pages: 326 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1948828677
ISBN-13: 9781948828673

Congo: A Journey to Our Deepest Roots

$14.30
$13.25
Sale 7%
 
The author lived seven years in the Congo as a servant of the Belgian government. He fostered deep bonds with the primitive Sonde tribe and gained the full confidence of Kianza, their illiterate tribal chief, who inspired this book. The deep knowledge of the earliest African life is lost forever because those who knew it could not write and those who had learned to write never knew it. Primitive African life is now overshadowed by a brand new "Africa in transition." This development took less than 75 years. Original tribal life in Africa is covered with a handful of stories as told by the chief and his father. The social hierarchy of the tribe, their laws and enforcement, worship and witchcraft, slavery and the role of ghosts, initiation processes into manhood and various secret societies get to the glue that secured the social order of a tribe that was only one step beyond the original hunter-gatherer's way of life.

Author: Hugo Daems
Publisher: Hugo Daems
Publication Date: Jun 18, 2019
Number of Pages: 326 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1948828677
ISBN-13: 9781948828673
 

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