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Cultural Dialogues of Agency and Transcendence: The Shona and Ndebele Example

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	Abstract

This article is concerned with the advancement of critical arguments aimed at enhancing african people’s chances of survival through a conscientious exegesis of selected Shona and Ndebele proverbial instruments. Based on the teachings of afrocentricity, it trains the african intellectual eye to rediscover life-affirming and life-furthering discursive agendas that find expression in african people’s traditions. It is through such a reconnection and recollection that african people possibly become increasingly aware that they are part of a tradition that is informed by, and in fact built around, the philosophies of transcendence and agency as the sine qua non and modus operandi of meaningful existence. Both agency and transcendence are inextricably linked to african people’s endeavors to diversify channels and options in life, because such consequent diversification is an inescapable condition for rehumanization and survival. Such proverbial thought should also provide a theory of life that guides both creativity and literary practice.

First published on June 1, 2009
Journal of Black Studies 2009, doi:10.1177/0021934709332721


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