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

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   Dec 22, 2008 · In much Western media coverage, ‘Africa’ appears as a space of death: epidemic disease, famine, war and apparently ‘irrational’ violence dominate representations of the continent and give rise to agonized debates about how such images might be countered.

   • Author: Rebekah Lee, Megan Vaughan

   • Publish Year: 2008

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

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   Jun 3, 2017 · Within traditional African cultures in general, life does not end with death, but merely progresses into another realm (Mbiti, 1969). Thus, death within such a context does not terminate or...

3. 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.

4. www.jstor.org › stable › jIn My Time of Dying: A History of Death and the Dead in West ...

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   BY THE MIDDLE of the twentieth century, death and dying in what in 1957 became independent Ghana had in one crucial respect undergone significant change. It was a change, moreover, which affected the whole of Africa: the continent’s population had begun to increase dramatically.

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

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   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.

6. www.jstor.org › stable › 1166258Life, Death, Reincarnation, and Traditional Healing in Africa

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   Essentially, the traditional African view of dying and death is similar to the Judaeo-Christian concept of the origin of death; it is the consequence of disobedience and sin against

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   Is Africa a space of death?

   • 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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   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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   Are 'death' and 'Africa' the same thing?

   • ‘Death’ and ‘Africa’ are words which, unfortunately, seem often to be twinned together. In much Western media coverage, ‘Africa’ appears as a space of death: epidemic disease, famine, war and apparently ‘irrational’ violence dominate representations of the continent and give rise to agonized debates about how such images might be countered.

   DEATH AND DYING IN THE HISTORY OF AFRICA SINCE 1800

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   What is the role of death in African culture?

   • 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.

   An African Perspective on Death - Medium

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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.

   The African Conception of Death: A Cultural Implication

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   Does Africa have a 'Western' relationship to death?

   • In Africa the living and the dead together constitute the social world. This characterization is not totally false, but the production of knowledge on death customs and beliefs in Africa has to be seen against the background of a perceived crisis in the ‘Western’ relationship to death.

   DEATH AND DYING IN THE HISTORY OF AFRICA SINCE 1800

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8. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles › PMC5072226African Cultural Concept of Death and the Idea of Advance ...

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   May 24, 2016 · The African culture of communal living, lack of awareness of advance care directives, fear of death and grief, physician lack of initiative, and the African belief system are potential barriers to the utilization of advance care directives in the African setting.