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“Africans are notoriously religious” - John Mbiti (1969) African Religions and Philosophy. To contextualize this more: when Mbiti says African peoples had ‘no concept of the future’ he doesn’t mean they couldn’t plan, prepare, or think ahead, rather what he’s saying is the future does not exist as an abstract, infinite horizon. Time is tied to even... See more
instagram.comacc to philospher Mbiti's work, in East African Bantu communities the concept of future is barely relevant as they understand time as 2D, made out a present and a forever living past. Because for time to be, it needs to happen. Therefore it is made up of present events which keep on living on in the past.
The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
Miles Johnstonx.comI should take write when I’m disatisfied with smtg I was interested in. Might help me understand what I am loooking for?