Land is ancestral in the Being of the African people, and therefore any disturbance to the relation between the land and the Africans will result in them losing their Being (or self) -

Culture shapes us into who we are, and we, in turn, construct culture. Language plays an important role in the understanding of ourselves as a culture. Language and culture are inseparable. ‘Language is

Wherever they went, in their voyages of land, sea, and mind, Europeans planted their own memories on whatever they contacted. In his book The Idea of Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe writes, “The geographic

My father’s said, when by some great miracle, pestilence or ordeal, he had struck in their midst: Gaoitsiwe: and that name was given to a child who was born in conjunction with

"The word classical is not reserved for European arts only. Most cultures produce classical works in all aspects of the arts. So the higher arts of any traditional society can therefore be