Mysteries Of Africa

Mysteries Of Africa

The continent of Africa is steeped with mysteries. Ancient relics were discovered from the Olduvai Gorge of Tanzania’s Serengeti Plain, from Koobi Fora and Lake Turkana in Kenya. Skeletal remains proved to be more than 3 million year-old were also found in 1974 from Hadar in Ethiopia. Many rivers flow through a large expanse of the continent. They are rich in minerals and they provide food, water, and transportation to the vast continent. The abundance of natural resources resulted in popular trade routes like Niger River evident of the glorious past of African cities of Jenne and Timbuktu.

It is an established fact that Africans lived in a harmonious relationship with the natural environment. Be it basic form of community life, primitive and ancient, dating back to times when first human species evolved. How can we forget the first signs of civilized form of living with the Neolithic cave engravings, or the roots of group hunter-gathering men who lived here?

The mysteries that make such a profound effect on our minds also leaps back to time when we found ourselves connected to this primitive lifestyle and tribal culture in some way or the other. Be it their strong spiritual customs that root to ancestors, to earth, to nature and to the essence of life through very intense ceremonies and customs.

You will find different climactic zones, ranging from tropical rain forests to arid deserts in different parts of the sub-continent. Sahara is the largest desert, while snow-capped peaks such as Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya show extreme variation of weather and climate. The Savanna grasslands and many virgin forests are a home to variety of wildlife.

To discover each element of mystery in Africa, you will need to unfold many chapters of civilizations to finally understand the present day Africa. Africans have for long-lived in tune with the spiritual side of nature. Their rituals are symbolic of these intense practices. Discover mysteries with a flow of natural resources that the African countries have preserved for so long.

European invasion robbed Africa of its natural and tribal lifestyle. Years of slavery and colonialism saw a Dark Age for most of Africa. These ethnic groups were often isolated and alienated from a community-based society so prevalent in Africa. Despite of the ill effects, African culture has managed to establish its own unique identity over a period of time. The African philosophical term Nommo means the initiating power of the Word. It is perfect in both creative and aesthetic sense as it inspires and rejuvenates life.

African traditional legacy is bound by a very strong sense of community and spiritual life. To learn the mysteries, you will also need to span across your own vision of modernity. The continent spans across an area of 11.5 million square miles between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans on the west and east. The modern day Africa still carries roots from past human evolution—a world that carries enough history and charm to keep you enchanted for a lifetime.