By N. Gordon-Chipembere
Sarah Baartman’s iconic prestige because the “Hottentot Venus”—as “victimized” African lady, “Mother” of the recent South Africa, and ancestral spirit to numerous girls of the African Diaspora—has ended in numerous essays, biographies, movies, interviews, paintings installations, and study facilities, comprising a digital archive that seeks to discover a few which means in her character. but even people with the easiest intentions, struggling with to provide her business enterprise, a voice, a personhood, proceed to enhance the superseded eu narrative of her lifestyles with out asking “What if we checked out Baartman via one other lens?” This assortment, the 1st of its style, bargains an area during which foreign students, cultural activists, and visible artists study the legacy of Baartman’s existence anew. It disrupts iconic, pop-culture narratives to hunt another Africanist rendering of an individual whose existence has left a profound impression at the ways that Black girls are displayed and represented across the world.
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We also learn something about her epistemology. ” Instead they thought of medicine as part of what we nowadays would call a holistic health care approach. The herbs they used for healing worked in the context of a healthy lifestyle and a peaceful mind playing “glory” with the cosmos. ) As with other indigenous knowledge systems, the KhoeSan would consider the problem of ill health as a matter of immune system boosting and promoting balance between body, mind, and society. That is why today some of our most famous herbs, like cancer bush (Lessertia frutescens) are called by Western science adaptogenic; they do not contain one substance that acts against one disease, but a multitude of substances that together act so as to boost the body’s ability to deal with stress.
Nau was a central concept of KhoeSan life and spirituality, expressed in many ceremonies and traditions. Naturally, a culture that can rightfully claim to be the oldest culture in the world has accumulated untold expertise in the fine art of balancing continuity and change. nau saw change as a positive thing, provided that it was done according to custom and true to our history. In other words, KhoeSan tradition was never frozen in time but embraced change. The issue was never what we did, but how we did it.
Put like that, it is strange that we have for so long tried to write history without it. So smell the spell by which I evoked the young Sarah! Perhaps it shall help you understand her true self. Perhaps this is a spiritual point. Try to understand a religion that worshipped all that lives as expression of our Great Creator, who was lonely and so made Creation to keep her company. So happy were we to be Created that we could not do other than sing praises, glory, glory all day long, chopping on rocks, painting walls, planting, weeding, and feeding other creatures to bring greater happiness to Creator, our Mother.
