Shona Tribes and the Divine Light

ebook The Case of a Covenant in African Settings

By Aaron Matingwina

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The Shona people of Southern Africa have a long bond with (Mwari) God of their ancestors. Their actions seem to speak to the existence of a covenant between them and God. This is shown through their spirituality, historical narratives, and their philosophical worldview. Some among them converted to other religions but this has not stopped them from some of their traditinal religious practices. Many among them still honor God and they are marrying through their traditional practices. They are very proud of their totems and are still burrying their dead through their traditional practices. It seems their covenant with God is unostentatiously existing and the living, the ancestors and God are the spiritual covenantal kinship guarding this covenant. The book tries to bring this to attention through analysing Shona historicity, language, philosophy and social structure.

Shona Tribes and the Divine Light