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Created: April 10, 2003
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Virtuality in Africa: Photo essay

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, April 2003.
"Fair use" encouraged.

I would like you to check out these virtual photo essays in terms of their potential for helping us to grasp cultures that we are unused to. I found this author through searches on Kant, and will put up more of his work on Africa. Problem is, this is an area in which I don't have enough sophistication to be able to point out to you just where he may be right or may go to extremist views. As a shaman, he has accepted African religion in a way that suggests some personal interdependence with the religion of another culture. Though I haven't yet found out whether he was born in South Africa. He could pass for white. He might be. He teaches at Erasmus University.

How much credence you give to his ideas will depend on the extent to which you can share his values. I put this material up for you because that portion of it I have read seems reasoned. Also I noticed that he has material on Black Athena, which is generally rejectected in the West, but has run into the prejudice of the West. So bear in mind that I present this professor not as an authority, but as a voice with considerable validity who explicates some of the perspectives that we in the West have rejected out of hand.

Look and read in good faith. Illocutionary discourse, remember? Then, as we both read, we'll talk about his ideas. jeanne

One of several photo essays on the site: Virtuality in Africa: Photo essay. If visual narrative interests you as a methodology you should certainly look at these.

Author also writes on African religion and is a certified shaman in same. For some of you who have expressed the idea that African religion is "nothing but superstition," you might find some enlightenment here. How do I feel about that? I am convinced that there is transcendental knowledge we cannot know underlying all religions. Who is to say that the superstitions of the North and the West are more reasonable or more accurate than those of the South and the East? jeanne