THE SACRED BOOK OF ORALITY IN THE VOICE OF AN AFRICAN HEALER: LITERATURE AND RESISTANCE

• Autor(a) principal: Daibert Jr., Robert
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caminhos (Goiânia. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.pucgoias.edu.br/index.php/caminhos/article/view/13136
• topic: oralidade; resistência; ancestralidade; Religiões Africanas; Resistance; Colonialism; African religious tradition

The article aims to analyze the narrative of the African healer Rasta Samuel Pita re­corded in the book “Por quem vibram os tambores do além?”, in partnership with the Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane. At first, his vision is presented regarding the main characteristics of the African religious tradition, with emphasis on its spiritual hierarchy, songs, prayers, myths, rites and revelations. Next, we seek to relate these elements of the healer’s narrative to his effort to denounce the evils of colonialism that still persist in contemporary society in Mozambique, such as religious racism, religious intolerance, prejudice, the destruction of nature, and the loss of cultural identity. Finally, we interpret the healer’s narrative as an expression of religious and literary resistance to the process of degradation of his religious tradition, through a re-reading of the sacred book of Afri­can orality, based on the profetical hope for the transformation of the world.