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1. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsDeath and meaning(lessness): re-examining the African view

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   In the first section, I attempt to conceptualize the African notion of death, using clues from the literature on African metaphysics and African philosophy of religion. With this conception at hand, in the second section I curate an African concept meaning based on the African conception of death.

2. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsDEATH AND DYING IN THE HISTORY OF AFRICA SINCE 1800

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   Dec 22, 2008 · The rich literature on African beliefs and practices relating to death is largely disconnected from demographic history, and this poses a major challenge for historians of death in Africa.

   • Author: Rebekah Lee, Megan Vaughan

   • Publish Year: 2008

3. www.cambridge.org › core › servicesDeath and meaning(lessness): re-examining the African view

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   cussions about death and meaning, the African philosophical perspective has been, byand large, silent on the matter. Thus, I aim, in this article, not only to reveal a plausible conception of death and its relation to life’s meaning from the African perspective but also to converse with the view.

4. www.iaccp.org › wp-content › uploadsThe African Conception of Death: A Cultural Implication

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   For Africans, death is accompanied by a series of the performance of rituals which connect the living dead and the living. Two case studies are presented and discussed to illustrate the African conception of death, its meaning, signif-icance and accompanying mourning rituals and process.

5. medium.com › @erichrickens › an-african-perspectiveAn African Perspective on Death - Medium

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   Jun 3, 2017 · Death as the Continuation of Life. Within traditional African cultures in general, life does not end with death, but merely progresses into another realm (Mbiti, 1969). Thus, death...

6. scholarworks.gvsu.edu › iaccp_papers › 119The African Conception of Death: A Cultural Implication

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   Jun 20, 2018 · Two case studies are presented and discussed to illustrate the African conception of death, its meaning, significance and accompanying mourning rituals and process. We approach the participants’ stories from a qualitative narrative inquiry viewpoint as our methodology.

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   • Furthermore, the implied role of death within such a culture is to complement life, and to introduce the deceased to the realm of communication among the living and non-living, or the invisible and visible worlds. Hereby, ancestral worship comes to the fore, which is a crucial component of traditional African culture.

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   What is the African conception of death?

   • To do this, I will begin by curating an African conception of death that sees death as primarily the disembodiment of subjective consciousness. Through this disembodiment, the individual can approach death with meaning in life and pivot into meaning after life.

   Death and meaning(lessness): re-examining the African view

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   What does death mean in Africa?

   • From an African perspective death is a natural transition from the visible to the invisible spiritual ontology where the spirit, the essence of the person, is not destroyed but moves to live in the spirit ancestors’ realm dead. It signifies an inextricable spiritual con-nection between the visible and invisible worlds.

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   • While ‘Africa’ often figures in the Western imaginary as a space of death (not least in the era of HIV/AIDS), at the same time African societies are also frequently represented as being ‘good’ at dealing with death. Africans, we are told, have ‘proper’ funerals, not the truncated affairs so common in Europe and North America.

   DEATH AND DYING IN THE HISTORY OF AFRICA SINCE 1800

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   Why is veneration of the dead important in African history?

   • In the context of colonial rule and the depletion of traditional authority within African polities, this ‘supernatural power’ became all the more important to preserve. 18 Certainly, in the African historical context the veneration of the dead can be seen as a potent political narrative and strategy.

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   Are African indigenous ways of coping with death recognized?

   • The experiences in the participants’ stories in the workplace reveal that African indigenous ways of dealing with death are still not recognized, respected and understood in organizations which have a dominant Western culture. The professional study of psychology in African has been and is still dominated by Euro-American approaches (Nwoye, 2013).

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8. www.jstor.org › stable › 3336496Death, Ritual, and Art in Africa - JSTOR

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   Death, Ritual, and Art in Africa FRED T. SMITH The characteristic behavior and out-look regarding death in contempo-rary America are far different from those in a more traditional society. The death of a person in Africa, for example, is a sig-nificant event that can affect the entire structure of society. The magnitude of its