EP43: HOW THE TOWNSHIP DESTROYED SPIRITUALITY | Part 1

How did the physical structure of the township affect how black people navigated spirituality? Did it help to cultivate a better understanding of our...

EP42: SPIRITUAL BURNOUT

I think spiritual burnout has led many people to make drastic decisions or to misinterpret their experiences. Some people left church because of spiri...

EP41: When You Doubt Your Spiritual Journey

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...

EP40: SPIRITUALITY IN A WORLD FALLING APART

EP39: THE JOURNEY KWANTU LIVE

EP38: Into The Ancestral Realm

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ep37: Spirituality In The Corporate World Part 2

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 na...

EP36: Spirituality In The Corporate World

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...

EP35 | When Feminism Meets African Spirituality

EP34: DOES CHANGING COUNTRIES AFFECT YOUR SENSE OF IDENTITY PART 2

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 o...

EP33: DOES CHANGING COUNTRIES AFFECT YOUR SENSE OF IDENTITY

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 cr...

EP32: How Does Our Identity Affect Spirituality?

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 w...

EP31: HOW DOES LANGUAGE AFFECT SPIRITUALITY?

In the process of the change and evolution of our societies, how does language affect our relationship with spirituality?
I spoke to Gogo Khanya...

EP30: DEALING WITH SPIRITUAL SETBACKS

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 fun...

EP29: Exploring Tarot Card Reading

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...

EP28: CAN YOU PRACTICE MULTIPLE SPIRITUAL BELIEFS AT ONCE?

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The world that we live in today is increasingly global. Through the internet, there are virtually no boundaries stopping us from being influen...

EP26: UNDERSTANDING CONSULTING WITH A SANGOMA

For anyone who is still trying to figure out their way in African Spirituality, the prospect of having to consult with a Healer or Sangoma can be extr...

EP27: When Your Life Falls Apart

Have you ever had that moment or that period where you wanted where you just wanted to pack up one day and just disappear? To just leave everything be...

EP25: UNDERSTANDING CLEANSINGS

In Part 4 of our series on Practicing African Spirituality for Beginners, uMkhulu Mahlalentabeni will be taking us through Understanding Cleansings in...

EP24: UNDERSTANDING UMUTHI

The idea of embracing African Spirituality in all its different facets has generally become something easy to talk about. We speak openly about ancest...

EP23: UNDERSTANDING UMSAMO

Umsamo is one of those extremely vague yet still seemingly integral aspects of African Spirituality. The definitions and understandings of it vary gre...

Ep22: UNDERSTANDING YOUR ANCESTRAL LINEAGE

So, here you are. You have developed an interest in African Spirituality or something in you is pulling you towards that direction. You have a basic u...

EP21: AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH 2

We continue the conversation with Gogo Aubrey Matshiqi as we dig deeper into the history of African Initiated Churches.
This episode also unpack...

EP20: AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH

African Spirituality and Christianity are seemingly two opposing ideologies. Yet, there are African Initiated Churches such as ZCC and Ibandla Lamanaz...

EP19: WHY DO WE BELIEVE

What is the nature of belief? Why do we, as human beings, have the capacity to believe and what purpose does it serve?
In this episode it is jus...

EP18: SPIRITUALITY AND MODERN TECHNOLOGY II

The assumption that we often about technology is that it relates to things like automated electronic machinery and artificial intelligence. But each p...

EP17: SPIRITUALITY AND MODERN TECHNOLOGY

Most of us aware that social media does affect our psyche even though we not quite sure how or to what extent. But have you ever wondered how it affec...

EP16: THE SPIRITUALITY OF LAND

As Africans, it is almost a given that the land is an integral part of our spiritual identity but I want to know how. I want look specifically at sacr...

EP15: THE SPECTRUM OF AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY

The subject of the evolution of African spirituality is a very complex one. Spirituality itself is a very broad topic especially if you want to approa...

EP14: IS OUR SPIRITUAL CULTURE EVEN RELEVANT?

We as black South Africans, are very keenly aware that our culture is slowly disappearing. Yet, at the same time, there has been a resurgence of inter...

EP13: CAN WESTERN MEDICINE AND AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY COEXIST?

How far away are we from a time when we have a health system where western medicine is fully integrated with African Spiritual modalities in such a wa...

EPISODE 12: CULTURE VS SPIRITUALITY

We've been raised to believe that culture and spirituality are synonyms. for the same thing. But as our collective understanding of spirituality grows...

EPISODE 11: THE SPIRITUALITY OF PARENTING

At times it happens that when we are busy navigating our spiritual journey we can get caught up in making it all about ourselves and the challenges th...

EPISODE 10: THE COST OF SPIRITUALITY ON MENTAL HEALTH

What we rarely talk about when it comes to African Spirituality is the toll that it takes on our mental health. 

The belief system that w...

EPISODE 09: HOW WE LOST THE BLACK MAN

How did we as black men get to such a state of brokeness? How did we end up being such a terrifying threat to the lives of black women? Is it possible...

EPISODE 08: THE CHALLENGES OF FINDING A SPIRITUAL MENTOR

Nowadays there's a tendency to believe that the journey through African Spirituality is only reserved for those who have a calling to become Healers....

EPISODE 07: IS IT SPIRITUALITY OR IS IT ESCAPISM

At some point, I think every one of us gets to a point where we doubt our beliefs. It is different for everyone but it is something that we all go thr...

Episode 6: The Secret Life Of Surnames

When you are exploring African Spirituality you are inevitably dealing with different aspects of identity and when it comes to issues of identity, the...

Episode 5: Reflections

Covid-19 is here and it is forcing us to approach our entire lives differently. We are in week 5 of the lockdown and the restricted movements have imp...

EPISODE 04: BEERS, MUSIC, SPIRITS & GODS

When we think of our spiritual history we tend to lean towards the idea of great Healers who come from a mythical time and possess mystical powers. Bu...