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Pilgrimage into the Womb of a Bantu Dynasty is an epic poem that explores the philosophical and traditional religious system of a 14th-century Dynasty that was fractured by many factors, including the triangular slave trade. It's a story about a teenage boy whose greatness was prophesied on his circumcision. He was born preterm and ended up in the hands of an extended family member who passed away, leaving him at a teenage age as his mother did during his birth. In going through hard life and mistreatment, Nnam begins to self-educate to understand his environment and the traditional belief system. By the time he turns 25, he hadn't only become a proficient healer, and an indispensable theologian, standing parallel to the new European belief tenets that gained momentum as slavery gradually comes to an end. Even though a crusader of peace, Nnam successfully leads his people to a battle of land acquisition. As the ancestors' oracle, he attains the greatest wish to understand the mystery surrounding death in a revelation.

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Publié par	Austin Macauley Publishers LLC
Date de parution	06 janvier 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781638290018
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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P ilgrimage into the W omb of a B antu D ynasty
Clement Akuo-Ehohnzi
Austin Macauley Publishers
2023-01-06
Pilgrimage into the Womb of a Bantu Dynasty About the Author Dedication Copyright Information © Acknowledgments
About the Author
Clement Akuo-Ehohnzi was born in a typical Bakossi village in Southern Cameroon. He spent his childhood in this unique setting where he observed the wispy remnants of a culture once colorful and alive, and vowed internally to give new life to it. Akuo-Ehohnzi currently lives in Maryland developing his craft. He studied mass communication and journalism, is a fellow of the MacDowell Peterborough New Hampshire, and the author of The Villain Within .
Dedication
Before my curiosity was aroused in the scanty literature of the Ngoe Dynasty, that intrigue was ignited by my father John Akuo-Ehohnzi’s account when I was a kid. I have not read or heard a more captivating version than his. As a catechist, he was compelled to relinquish his traditional powers and beliefs like his following brothers, Chief Dominic Edi, Emmanuel Ntube, Thomas Ekahkpe, Peter Nsong, Lawrence Esambe, Soh Ehabe, Athanasius Nzikuoh, and Raphael Nzikang, all from the Ngeme-Ngoe pedigree embracing the Catholic faith. These people, in various ways, instilled a sense of awakening in me.
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Akuo-Ehohnzi, Clement
Pilgrimage into the Womb of a Bantu Dynasty
ISBN 9781638290001 (Paperback)
ISBN 9781638290018 (ePub e-book)
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Acknowledgments
Even though the quest to understand the African belief systems has alienated me from religion as postulated and practiced by Christians and Muslims, I nevertheless listen to some of their preachers. According to Dr. Mike Murdock, one doesn’t need many people to make it. You need only one person who recognizes and believes in your vision and dreams, and the rest will be history. That’s precisely what happened to me when I strolled like a lamb in search of a bearing and stumbled on this Tanzanian-born illustrious son, Mr. Mohamed Matope. It’s hard to quantify his level of selflessness. Creative ability is a personal journey. However, it can never be smooth and accomplished without the people one deals with daily. This is why I’m indebted to the quality One Care Team of nurses and staff, especially Regness Mbuya, Deshola Adebayo and Amon Chafukira. My brothers and friends, Bishop Lawrence Kang, Philip Timbu, and Musa Yumouh for their continued support. Three very special women, Esther Muabe, Marie Akonjang, and the one and only Gladys Malike for their endless support. Fatherly love to my son Collins Nzikang and daughter Lydien Parsa for being patient with me through the years of my absence.
When it journeys through three wombs
The Bantu pedigrees believe and agree
The lifecycle of an individual is complete.
Nevertheless, death determinant factor in,
The procedural selection for the completion,
Igniting the debate for reincarnation.
And rooting the life after death contention.
From creed to creed, race to race
Variation in traditions and cultures
And the conflicts in denominational beliefs,
All account for the admissible disagreements.
Going by conceptual and physical observations,
The human span undergoes three distinctive natural seasons.
The primary follows a natal yet mysterious course,
Of conception and the unfolding into a woman’s womb.
That leads to the penultimate birth.
The complexity of sequences in human growth
The tumultuous chains of events before death
And internment into the earth,
From which the human body allegedly emanates,
After two mated cells to a zygote
Of living beings, are religiously formed and made
The Ngoe Dynasty of the Bantu people
Is rooted in the cognomen
Muane-Ngoh, meaning a cub of a feline
Juxtapositioned as a child born of a tiger or lion
After an encounter with Sang Diob Egum:
The Almighty God in the attributes of a feline
So extraordinary, capable of every physical move,
Jump, run, creep, scale with unbearable swiftness
The lion looking beyond the intrinsic
On a volcanic mountain, so dynamic
Named the Muane-Ngum Mountain,
Meaning the mountain of power
Now dormant and called Muanengumba.
Hence, the bedrock of many
Bantu ethnic and tribal patrimony.
The custodian of the Muane-Ngoe identity
Or better still, the children of Ngoe’s identity
After centuries of movements and tribal hegemony
The results of patriarchal land rivalry
Remained a tribe and language known
From the colonial appellation,
As Bakossi and Akoose
Both denoting an epithet of dislike.
The tribe and language invoking hate imagery.
The colonial masters’ mistreatment of her ancestry
Alienating the people from their history, geography
And the fervent spiritual alignment,
Of the divine direction of the Ngoe descent.
Blotting away Muane-Ngoe as the tribe,
Ngoe as the language of these people
And the lion or tiger as their symbol.
The Bantu lexicon interchangeably,
Employs the word soul and spirit to convey
The non-corporeal nature of human beings.
Nevertheless, the soul and the spirit are distinct
In meaning, applicable in usage and context.
The core of human life and serving as a link,
Between the human body and the spirit is the soul.
The spirit dwells within the celestial.
Having a direct and overriding role in the soul.
When alive, the soul remains a dominant matter.
While the spirit is an outer recessive matter
Assisting and guarding the soul during sleep
Makes possibility for humans to dream
Get revelations, even travel to strange places,
And get mysteriously cured of illnesses.
When death, the soul reunites with the spirit
After a scrutinized process to be able
To make encounters with humans possible.
Just as circumstances make them impossible.
Thereafter an individual is dead and buried
A third-grade constituent, the soul, leaves behind
The rejected remains of the bodily composition
And begins the journey to the spiritual womb.
The soul is subjected to sacred scrutiny.
Before its admittance into the heavenly
Body, because of the childhood purity
That every individual is born of
Is smeared by the corrupt nature of
The human species already in existence.
This contaminates and degrades the soul;
To the stage of impurity, inviting the need,
For a cathectic cosmic purge, have it upgraded,
To an elevated standard of purity
Acceptable into the promised immortal kingdom
That embodies the spiritual womb,
Known to be the cradle of mankind.
The very nature of human life
Interplayed with the advancement in science
And influenced by the arts and religious practices,
Have seemingly enhanced the awareness
Of the womb’s first two journeys.
Even so, clouded and still shrouded, surprisingly,
In a mystery, is the womb’s last journey
The sovereignty of the key to the verity
As of now, the creator keeps, sacredly.
Nothing has challenged the human ability
like understanding the mystery of the journey
Owing to the soul’s inability to return to a decayed,
Cremated or an embalmed decomposed body.
Therefore, whatever the soul’s partaking experience,
After death, it remains unknown and unfathomable.
The wisest philosophers have theorized.
Prophets and seers have exalted their whims.
Acclaimed representatives of God have dreamed
Yet, the mystery remains unlocked
Even Lazarus, whom Jesus wakes from dead
After weeping for the loss of a dedicated
Friend, and the challenge he faced
To convince his followers no power,
Was more than that of his father,
Had nothing extraordinary to say
To the jubilant and mesmerized crowd
About one of the greatest wonders performed,
In human history and religious records.
Perhaps, arguably Lazarus’ soul still rested
Within the human breadth
And hovering in the milieu of his birth.
In the darkness of the earth
And hadn’t transcended to the realm,
Of the underworld to undergo the experience
Of confronting spiritual scrutiny
To gain knowledge and mystery,
Of the after-death obscurity,
To report thereafter being resurrected,
The experience of life during that interlude.
The coercive forces of the universe,
Perhaps, and the power of the almighty
Makes no allowance for humanity
To retain absolute comprehension
Of the life after death
Just as it’s mysterious before birth
To have an absolute understanding of conception
Even with the advancement in scientific innovation.
So it’s with anyone who may wish to return,
To the earth after death to comprehend.
Arguably why Jesus Christ’s body,
So to say, had to be flown away
In spirits, in agreement with the prophecy
And in concordance with the promise
He annunciated to his followers and disciples
To give credence to his apparition
In flesh and blood, days after his crucifixion.
Not even his apostles understood the mystery,
Of his eventual specter and ascendancy.
The resurrection and eventual ascendancy
Of Jesu