- Title
- Sex, gender and Uvalo/Letswalo centred spirituality
- Creator
- Magadla, Siphokazi, Magoqwana, Babalwa, Motsemme, Nthabiseng, Mohoto, Lieketso
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298663
- Identifier
- vital:57725
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2021.1909711"
- Description
- In Male Daughters, Female Husbands (1987) Amadiume argues that the female orientation of Nnobi society and its emphasis on female industriousness is ‘derived from goddess Idemili – the ancestral religious deity’ (27). While Christianity dominates the outlook and conservatism of the post-colonial African state, we are seeing a growing public presence of African spiritual practitioners in southern Africa. The interview with Lieketso Gogo Mapitsi Mohoto reflects on her journey of becoming a healer. She uses the concept of ‘uvalo' to argue for deeper connected spiritual awareness within this practice of healing. Using the Nguni concept of uvalo, she refers to the fluid meaning of intuition also known as Umbilini among Xhosa-speaking people, while Sesotho speakers call it Letswalo. This intimate connection with the Divine can sometimes mean a sense of fear for ordinary people, while it promotes a deep sense of knowing for the spiritually conscious. Gogo Mapitsi's connections between spirituality and land, speak to Amadiume’s matrifocal understanding of productivity as linked to the goddess Idemili in Nnobi histories. Gogo Mapitsi reminds us that the multiple health, economic, psychological crises we face today are linked 'to how uvalo works.' She tells us that the 'cultivation of that inner knowing and the cultivation of trust in that knowing' is central to how a Sangoma understands and responds to the needs of their society.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (10 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Magadla, S., Magoqwana, B., Motsemme, N. and Mohoto, L., 2021. Sex, gender and Uvalo/Letswalo centred spirituality: in conversation with Gogo Mapitsi Mohoto. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 39(4), pp.634-643, Journal of Contemporary African Studies volume 39 number 4 p. 634 2021 1469-9397
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- Rights
- Open Access
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