This bespoke lecture was delivered at Westminster City Hall to the Westminster Multifaith network on the 25th of July 2024.
It presents 6 unifying tenets that codify and provide a framework for African sacred cosmologies and their associated spiritual practices from antiquity to the present; on the continent and in the Diaspora. They evidence a shared cultural continuity and unity amongst African-descended communities across time and space and highlight the foundational ideologies that inform African Cosmological systems.
These tenets include –
The Supreme creative force: the origins of existence and creation
Forces of Nature: the Elemental energies that exist within Nature and maintain an interactive dynamic with humans
Personhood and Ancestorhood: what constitutes a person, their purpose and role in life and as departed members of a lineage
Divination: Means of perceiving divine correspondences for guidance
Libation: African-derived prayer or invocation forms
Ritual & Ceremonies: Means of divine veneration and communication