African Cosmology of the Bântu-Kongo: principles of life & living

Twenty-one years ago this study was printed to serve as a stepping ground to my class discussions at Yale University. Since its publication, many outside of the classroom wanted to have a copy of African Book Without Title, but it was not available. Friends asked to review the materials and expand the book for a new edition. This was not possible because each time I tried to do so I continued to push the work off to the next day. Meanwhile demands and requests for the book accumulated. Finally, I decided to review the materials of the study for a second edition, which we are happy to present to you now under a new title African Cosmology of the Bantu—Kongo: Principles of Life and Living. Is there any difference in form and content between this edition and the first? My answer to that question will be yes, indeed. Its content was revised and expanded where it was possible. This expansion includes a brief description of the Bantu-Kéngo concept of mapping the universe [kayéngele/luyalungunu] and a new chapter on the “Vee”, one of the most secret aspects of the Bantu teaching among the Koéngo people.