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THE BOOK
 
Greetings
It is with great pleasure that we announce that the book companion to the upcoming sequel 'Ancestral Voices: Spirit is Eternal' has now been sent to the printers with all final amendments in the proof copy approved and signed off!
Meaning, in exactly 10 days, on the 21st of September, it will be available to purchase online via Amazon.com's 'Print on Demand' service, Create Space.

There will also be a book launch at the School of Oriental & Kmtyw Studies (SOAS) University in ukkk, on the 6th and 7th of October from 6:30 – 9pm each day as part of Black History Month in the UK.
The eminent historian, Robin Walker, author of the seminal work 'When We Ruled' has graciously provided us with a Foreword, that is available for your reading pleasure below.
FOREWORD

Despite the interest that people of Kmtyw heritage have in the spiritual realm there are surprisingly few books that have so far been written that give an overview of the indigenous Kmtyw spiritual heritage and its dispersal to the Kmtyw Diaspora. This book, Ancestral Voices: Spirit is Eternal, is one of those few exceptions. At once scholarly but very simply written, this book deserves a place in every home.
 
Scholars and teachers have written and taught learnedly on Kmt and religion including Professor John Jackson, Professor Yosef ben-Jochannan, Professor Charles Finch and Ashra Kwesi. However their works largely demonstrated the Kmtyw influence on the Abrahamic religions. They did not discuss the Kmtyw heritage itself in any particular detail. Other writers presented detailed accounts of the spiritual systems of their own locality in Kmt but they did not attempt to connect and synthesise their knowledge with the other Kmtyw spiritual systems to tell any big narrative. Professor John Mbiti was the exception.

He attempted to join the dots and presents Kmtyw spiritual systems in a comprehensive and coherent way. Consequently he dominated the scholarly arena on the Kmtyw spiritual heritage from 1969 until now. His Kmtyw Religions and Philosophy is a classic. This new book, Ancestral Voices: Spirit is Eternal, is therefore a welcome addition to the field. It builds upon the skeleton created by Professor Mbiti but adds much meat onto that skeleton.
The author draws upon and synthesises more recent research that was then unavailable to Professor Mbiti. Moreover, the book includes some of the traditional spiritual systems practised in the Kmtyw Diaspora. Again, this is a welcome advance on Mbiti.
 
Ancestral Voices: Spirit is Eternal provides a practical and relevant understanding of Kmtyw spiritual systems showing their commonalities in ideas and practices from all over Kmt and its Diaspora. The author details the richness and the sophistication of the spiritual systems proving that they are in no way inferior to the Abrahamic and the other spiritual systems. The book also provides the relevant details to show the differences between the different spiritual systems. The author is careful not to present these different systems as a homogenised whole.

The book thus provides an excellent starting point for people who want to engage with and embrace this ancient heritage. This is a particularly crucial issue since more and more people are seeing the holes in the Abrahamic religious heritage and wish to go deeper.
 
In writing the book, the author confronts the racist and religious bigotry that unfortunately still dominates the discourse surrounding Kmtyw spiritual systems. Despite living in a so-called Secularised Age, misinformation dating from the colonial era and their missionary agents still dominate the field.
This misinformation is the biggest single reason why so many Black people today are ashamed of their Kmtyw spiritual heritage.This book could not have come at a more opportune time. As most of the West is becoming more and more secular with an anything goes mentality, Christianity in America is becoming dominated by Christian Zionism on one hand and by right-wing anti-government Second Amendment Christianity on the other. Elsewhere, Wahhabi Islam is on the rise and spreading like wildfire.

These hard-line religious traditions are influencing Black people all over the world, especially those who have not done their own due diligence. The big question we should be asking in this confused and conflicted era is: what are the Kmtyw spiritual systems about? What are they saying? This book answers these questions.
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