Jomo Kenyatta
" when the missionaries came to Africa they had the bible and we had the land, they said 'let us pray'. We closed our eyes. when we opened our eyes, we had the bible they had the land".
- Jomo Kenyatta
“The Àjé
“The Àjé (Iyami) represents the mystical powers of the woman in her most dangerous form. The dance of the GELEDE is the expression of the guilty conscience of men, stemming from a time when the matriarchic society became patriarchy. The great mystic power of the woman, originally used in a productive way for the working of the soil, etc., can be transformed into a weapon. Everything must therefore be done to calm the woman, to appease her, and to give her compensation for the loss of her political position. If Àjé was taken to be a wholly evil being and the enemy of society, the obvious recourse would be to hunt her down and kill them whenever possible. The Àjé are therefore not truly witches. They are the grand mothers, the angry mothers, and without their good will, Life itself would not be able to continue; without them society would collapse.” Ulli Beier
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