T CORRECTION:Toyin Adepoju,Sango,African Craft and western science

[Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth]

 think we have a problem of perception here. when you say WITCH you immediately see an ugly woman!. lets present the sizzle instead of the sausage then we are fine.. so lets rebrand magic as African science,  and witch craft as African craft. are we making progress.?

now  for some inexplicable reason   I wrote to German Chancellor Angela merkel herself a scientist or western scientist and i stated   , WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES   the SAME place THREE times  the african believes here must be something but in the western rational scientific tradition it is just coincidence.

but lets look more at lightning through the alaafin of oyo, Oba lamidi Adeyemi.

on march 11 1978,  DURO LADIPO, the man who plated sango and stunned the  audience at the berlin jazzz festival in germany ,passed away. that night there was thunder ,there was lightning there was rain ,i remenber,!

   on march 11 1999, Brazil had the worlds worst power failure was that  the sign of sango?. most of the slaves taken to brazil were from oyo,land of sango!

we ware told that the third Alaafin of  Oyo had the powers to conjure lightning,i notice that  Kabiyesi celebrated  his  51 anniversary on january 17 2022. why? that coincides with the birth of benjamin franklin the inventor of the lightning conductor! coiicidence? its also the birthday of mohammed ali, the  world renowned boxer, kabiyesi was into boxing! kabiyesi was installed on november 18 1970

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

thanks Augustine

Witch images are diverse, both in Africa and the West, including both old women-the hag image-and young women, who may be beautiful, although in both contexts, perhaps contemporary Africa, and certainly contemporary Nigeria and pre-modern Europe, the unattractive old woman stereotype seems dominant.

how can magic be rebranded  as  African science and  witchcraft as an African craft?

 

your approach reminds me of the swiss psychologist philosopher of spirituality and culture carl jung who studied coincidences calling meaningful coincidences synchronicities 

 

do coincidences indicate something about cosmic order 

perhaps

can one gain from studying coincidences

yes

how does one arrive at a comprehensive understanding of them and their significance 

an open qs
 

 

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