Since the early 17th century, the people of African descent have an unsettled debt beyond an agricultural and economic remuneration. The psychological, social and emotional damage that has occurred due to the continual systemic assault on Black identity, Black bodies, and Black life; it must be assessed and repaired. It is necessary to recognize the value in the original African ways of being and the indigenous social practices of both African people and the descendants of African people in that assessment and repair. In the African worldview, there is no separation of the sacred and secular such that their spiritual being inextricably connected to the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of the person and community.
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