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Item Philosophy of African Folktales : a case study of Akamba Stories(2014-05-15) Jean-Pasteur, Kahindo KatavoThis study involved 100 Akamba tales as recorded in Mbiti's Akamba stories, and Kieti and Coughlin's Barking, you'll be eaten! It had a fourfold purpose: establishing the morphological framework of the corpus, setting down their message, testing their coherence and gauging the degree of their analogy to the biblical worldview. Thus, three research questions, from which five hypotheses were drawn, led the study to five main areas of investigation. Designed as a literary research, this structural analysis rested upon BremondJs morphological model, and Paulme and Cauvin's typological patterns. Both paracompositional and compositional structures were analyzed. It became clear that the narrative economy tended to reproduce all the structural types thus far known. From its dual perspective, the tale genre seemed to express a two-emphasis theme, nine various frequencies of the life-view and three ideals. Despite a few inconsistencies, the commonsensical worldview of tales showed a significant extent of analogy with the biblical worldview. Three corrective ways were suggested and practical recommendations proposed in view of cultural revitalization.Item The Power of Witchcraft among the Kenyan Akamba.(2014-04-07) Mwalw'a, Matthews KalolaThis thesis looks at the power of witchcraft among the Kenyan Akamba. I have taken time to explain the Akamba worldview as the basis upon which the thinking of the Akamba is drawn. Much space is given to this aspect in the paper due to the nature of the subject itself. The literature review undertook to bring together those who have gone before into the Akamba worldview. Such names as Lindblom, Jacobs, and Gehman have prominently featured. In order to establish a background to the subject, interviews were conducted. These included practicing witchdoctors and those who have observed witchcraft in their environment. Because the concern in this thesis is to look at the Kenyan setting, and how the Church is affected by witchcraft, the Africa Inland Church served as a case study. Three Churches were key in the research: The Africa Inland Church, Plainsview in Nairobi city, the Africa Inland Church, Kibera near the Kibera slums, and the Africa Inland Church, Misewani in Mwala division of Wamunyu in Machakos District. Areas mined include consultation with witchcraft, medicine man, herbalist, palm reading, star reading, and other related areas. I discovered that there were still a small, but significant minority of churched people who are sympathetic, and some who consult in these areas, therefore sharing their energy and resources with the world, and not fully committed to the Church. This raises the need for the leadership of the church to strengthen teaching and discipleship.