Dead and ALive In Negro Culture. Cult or Mutual Support?

Professor Mbonji Edjenguele, lecturer at the University of Yaounde 1 in Yaounde (Cameroon) believe in what follows.

Despite the claims of orthodoxy and the ideal culture, all human societies, without exception, pay heed to their dead directly or indirectly involved in universal life. From the Pharaonic sarcophagi to the Tibetan mummies, the ashes of the Pantheon to the Day of the Dead in November, the belief in zombies to those of the dead who dance and speak in secret societies of the Gulf of Benin, the secret house of skulls to the procedures for personal revenge of dead in Sawa-Duala, the dead are evoked and called up. Does that mean we are abiding to talk about worshiping of the dead?

In Negro culture, they are neither dead nor summoned souls to rest in peace where there are in, nor dust returning to dust. They were, are and will be, here and here or anywhere, present, absent, happy, unhappy, hungry, thirsty or contented. Among us, with us, and sometimes also against us, especially when they are excluded, deported from our game live.

The dead are not dead, perhaps, but by remaining in the state of denial about their presence, freezing them to the morgue and putting them in concrete tombs, we will ultimately kill them along with us included.