University Press of America
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978-0-7618-6710-4 • Paperback • December 2015 • $43.99 • (£35.00)
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Kimani S. K. Nehusi, PhD, FHEA (UK). Currently Associate Professor, Department of Africology, Temple University and Research Associate, Institute for Economic Research on Innovation, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. His research interests include Ancient Egypt and its relationship to living Afrika, the history and culture of the Afrikan world and the Caribbean as a history and culture sphere.
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
List of Photographs in the Photospread
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Photographic Credits
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Hr qbHw: On Libation
Chapter 2. The Origins of Libation
Chapter 3. The Origins and Evolution of the Offering Complex
Chapter 4. On Our Sacred Ancestors
Chapter 5. Transmission across Space and Time
Chapter 6. Ritual Significances
Chapter 7. Some Conclusions
Chapter 8. Some Questions and Answers
Bibliography
Index
. . . it shows an extremely refreshing and philosophically original approach. It is Afrocentric without being overbearingly so. I find it also serious in scholarship and well-written. It reads easily with no obscurity of either language or ideas. It takes the shroud off Egyptology. I think its break from Eurocentric leanings is one of its very fine points.
— Kwesi Kwaa Prah, Professor and Director, Center for the advanced study of African Society, Cape Town, South Africa
Professor Nehusi has written a powerful book on a most ancient and critical Afrikan ritual, libation. He masterfully demonstrates that libation must be understood within the Afrikan worldview and its emphasis on ontological unity and life eternal. Furthermore, his argument about the importance of cultural reclamation in the process of Afrikan renaissance is both timely and compelling.
— Ama Mazama, Temple University
This is, undoubtedly, a masterly and monumental work on libation, an African ritual of heritage, that reflects the African world view from the earliest times until the present. In an admirably scholarly manner, the author tells the "lion's story" that amply explains the meaning and significance of the ritual of libation and restores African identity in a conscious manner that effectively counters the hazards of the Maafa. The African world owes an immeasurable debt of gratitude to Kimani Nehusi for this brilliant piece of work.
— Kofi Asare Opoku, African University College of Communications, Accra, Ghana. Formerly Professor of Religious Studies, Lafayette College, Easton, PA. Author of West African Traditional Religion