Philosophy
concepts/pensées philosophiques stylés
Philosophy
“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... 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.