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Umsamo’s Centre for Family Contextual Healing / Therapy : Explained Introduction We live in an age of anxiety, fear of violence and questioning of fundamental values. Confidence in traditional values is being questioned and challenged. We all go to ...

Isigodlo SaseMlambomunye  (The School of EMlambomunye) IsiGodlo SaseMlambomunye, (School of uMlambomunye) is under Umsamo Institute and South African Healers Association. This School (Isigodlo) is mainly for African Healing, Counseling and advice on ...

Umsamo is a purely African epistemology that seeks to question the current Euro-American hegemonic epistemology founded on the tyranny of abstract universals and recover de-centred and suppressed knowledges and wisdom from the Global South in general ...

(How do we meet the challenges of having Umsamo in our Modern Homes?) Umsamo is a special and sacred place inside a traditional Zulu hut that is at once an altar and a repository (ithala) of a family’s precious and spiritually significant items.  ...

UKUTHWASA-ITS MEANING AND PROCESS African ‘Ukuthwasa’ and healing (ukwelapha) has been misconstrued and misunderstood for many years not only from the Western researchers but also from the people of Africa. Reason being that it has never been some ...

Part II - Finding Your Identity, given your understanding of the nature of Amathongo The biggest challenge facing an African Child in the present era is to find his/her identity. Such identity is being searched in many ways, others through vario ...

This is a Two-Part article. Part I of this article is about the Nature of Amathongo, while Part II is about Finding Your Identity, given your understanding of the nature of Amathongo. Part I follows next (The Nature of Amathongo) : Luisah Teish ...