Maout Djoudjin: Bantu Traditions at the origin, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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This book analyzes Bantu customs, their origins and their progressive distortion through the history of slavery, colonization and neocolonialism. The author highlights the essential rites like marriage, polygamy, funerals, identity and shows how they lost their original meaning under the influence of egoism, greed and manipulation.

At the heart of the book there is also a striking analysis of the mechanisms of enslavement established by colonizers and their agents: cultural denigration, corruption of elites, religious manipulation, political division, economic dependence, controlled media. These seventeen axes form a carefully designed system that keeps the Bantu peoples in poverty, division and loss of bearings.

But this is not only a statement. The work also proposes paths of resistance: to restore traditional justice, to recover altruism in place of egoism, to give full value back to Bantu names, languages, hair and skin colors, and to place love for the neighbor at the center of community life.

This book is at the same time a testimony, a critique and a call: a call to the reappropriation of original traditions as the foundation of an African renaissance and a universal contribution to a more balanced and united world.