{"id":263937,"date":"2025-06-19T13:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T11:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/mthathaexpress\/?p=263937"},"modified":"2025-06-19T13:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T11:31:07","slug":"author-advocates-african-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/mthathaexpress\/author-advocates-african-spirituality\/","title":{"rendered":"Author advocates African spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Khulani Sikhosana, founder of the Vuka Darkie Foundation and an author based in East Rand, Johannesburg, has published a book titled Ubuntu Economy (African Spiritual Economy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book explores the significance of integrating indigenous knowledge systems and African spirituality in the pursuit of economic prosperity. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sikhosana stated that Africans need an economic and spiritual programme tailored to their unique context. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is a well-researched body of work. Over the past few years, I have travelled across the Southern African region, interviewing custodians of African knowledge to source primary indigenous information of spiritual and economic value for the benefit of readers,&#8221; he said. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book also addresses the spiritual repression of Africans by foreign religious invaders through the introduction of anti-African spirituality acts, which have caused African spirituality to be wrongly equated with being &#8220;demonic&#8221; and &#8220;barbaric.&#8221; \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It provides an overview of our indigenous cultural economy, shedding light on untapped economic opportunities within our cultural practices. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The book highlights how we can leverage our rich and diverse cultural products and services \u2013 the Creative Economy \u2013 to build intergenerational wealth that will endure,&#8221; Sikhosana explained. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, he stressed the importance of land ownership for practising African spirituality. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sacred sites such as rivers, oceans, forests and mountains, play a crucial role, yet these have often been privatised by foreign invaders. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Land ownership is now wielded as a tool to suppress, marginalise, and exclude native Africans from accessing their ancestral and spiritual grounds, which are intrinsic to their identity. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Most importantly, the book is solution-oriented. 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