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African Cosmology of the Bantu-Kongo (Fu-Kiau) Chapter 4 #wearereading African Philosophy. Bunseki Fu-Kiau, Ph.D. is one of the great scholars of the African religion, and the leading authority on the Bantu-Kongo civilization. He is also a genuine practitioner of the Kongo spiritual tradition. He is initiated into the three "secret societies" Lemba, Khimba and Kimpasi. Lemba is the foundation for several African based religious practices including Palo Mayombe (Cuba), Vodou Petro (Haiti) and Candomble Angola (Brasil). African cosmology of the Bantu-Kongo explores the Bantu-Kongo religious and philosophical teachings, as well as concepts of law and crime. It connects the reader with one of the most ancient and powerful spiritual traditions-explore "seven-direction walk" of our origin and links to society, nature and the universe.

Timestamps:

2:33 Reading begins "The V basis of all realities"
2:56 What does Bantu mean?
3:29 Cultural Institutes of Ancient Kongo
6:54 Colonialists persecuted the institutions
10:11 Bantu-Kongo cosmology only revealed to world in 1966

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