The Journey Kwantu

A42 HOUSE MUSEUM hosted us for one of their regular book clubs, and we had an amazing, intimate deep dive into the realities of how surnames came about and the ways, good and bad, they affect our cultural and spiritual identities today.

In this episode, I wanted to trace the origins of what kept coming up in the last series, isithunywa

In Part 3 of this topic we spend time with the founders and congregants of the Seven Days Adventist Zion Church

In this episode, we spend time with Gogo Simenjalo and Gogo Zanemvula, a mother and daughter duo who use components of the Christian church and the bible as part of their healing practice

In this series we are exploring how healers balance African spirituality and Christianity. We will be attending different African Indigenous churches to try to get deeper understanding of this topic

This 3-part series is an in-depth exploration of the realities of the relationship between alcohol and spirituality in the practice of African culture

This 3-part series is an in-depth exploration of the realities of the relationship between alcohol and spirituality in the practice of African culture

This 3-part series is an in-depth exploration of the realities of the relationship between alcohol and spirituality in the practice of African culture

So this is part 2 of the topic of how the township destroyed African spirituality. It’s a conversation that I have been having with Bongisa Msuthu and Lerato Motshabi who are practitioners and academics within the architecture space.  In the previous episode we explored the historical context of African architecture and how it informed how people structured their lives from a cultural and spiritua...

How did the physical structure of the township affect how black people navigated spirituality? Did it help to cultivate a better understanding of our connection to God or did it enforce a detrimental mindset?

I think spiritual burnout has led many people to make drastic decisions or to misinterpret their experiences. Some people left church because of spiritual burnout. Some people cut their beads, burnt their cloths and called ancestors demons because of spiritual burnout. In some cases the severity can lead to something that resembles a mental illness. […]

The vast majority of us will eventually find ourselves in some form of a crossroads in our spiritual journey. When we get to this point the decisions that we are faced with can sometimes make us doubt everything that we hold as not only true but also important about our beliefs. Can you think of a time in your life when you got to this point? I spoke to Gogo Moyo about how she dealt with the parad...

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But the topic of spirituality in the workplace is still a very broad one in terms of individual experiences and I was curious as to how others have navigated their encounters with spirit and spirituality as well as the complexities of spiritual purpose. So I spoke to Gogo Jebhu who spent years in the corporate space and has since transitioned from being an HR practitioner to now being a full-time...

The nature of African spirituality is such that it involves not just the acknowledgment of the existence of the spiritual realm but also the existence of amadlozi and spiritual forces and the individualized encounters that we have with them in our daily lives. What is strange though is that as African spirituality continues to grow […]

This episode is a continuation of the topic asking Does changing countries affect your identity? It is part of a series that deals with the question of whether or not our identity affects our spirituality. I encourage you to make time to listen to the previous 3 episodes to get a better understanding of how this topic has evolved. In this episode, I'm going to be speaking to Buhlebezwe Siwani. She...

What happens to your identity as a black South African when you no longer live within the socioeconomic or political or even the cultural norms and criminal violence that defines so much of who we believe we are? If you are a black South African who is or has been living abroad for some time how do you define who you are? To get some perspective on this I spoke to a few South Africans who are curr...

So I want to know how does our identity, how does our sense of self affect how we navigate our beliefs and how we respond to the world in general. I want understand specifically how does the way that we perceive ourselves manifest the lives and socioeconomic challenges that we face today. I spoke to Banele Rewo who is an entrepreneur, author and content creator who has a particular interest in the...

In the process of the change and evolution of our societies, how does language affect our relationship with spirituality? I spoke to Gogo Khanyakude who is a healer, a gobela, and someone that I believe is one of the most important voices in our generation when it comes to the modern interpretation of African spirituality.

Very often we find ourselves feeling like noh mahn, something somewhere isn't right. There's something that is simply not adding up about how life functions. Right now the vast majority of us are going through a lot. Socially, our communities are a mess. Economical ku wow. Relationships...haai ke they are crying. So I spoke to Gogo Mahlodi to because I wanted to know how do we define what is a spi...

So in the last episode, we discussed whether or not it is possible to practice multiple spiritual beliefs at the same time and I personally concluded by saying that maybe it would help to get a better understanding of what exactly these multiple spiritual beliefs actually are. Maybe then we will be able to say if they are connected or if they totally go against each other. To kick off this little...

: The world that we live in today is increasingly global. Through the internet, there are virtually no boundaries stopping us from being influenced by many other beliefs and religions around the world. This ease of access to different beliefs has meant that we have, whether consciously or subconsciously, started incorporating aspects of other practices into our own. So in this episode what I would...