African Spirituality

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The Chatroom presenter Michael Benevolent speaks to traditional healer, Dr Dumakude, and Prophet Katleho Mogase about African spirituality- a holistic concept that stemmed from cultural and religious heritage of Africa, and includes among others, folktales, beliefs, rituals and culture.

Africa is a continent with a vast plethora of spiritualities - some of which originated on African soil and others developed through contact with people from other countries and continents.

It needs to be stressed that there is not just one single African spirituality, although many of the characteristics of the African spiritualities are alike, but it may have different interpretations.

Producer: Nokuthula Khwela
2 Dec 2021 English South Africa Technology · Music

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