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In African Traditions and Philosophy,
John Mbiti describes the centrality of trees to rites of sexual passage;
indeed, the Akamba tribe even gives young males "special
sticks" with which they "perform symbolic sexual acts"
upon the girls of the tribe (124). As it was said among the Akamba of
Kenya, "The child is supposed to derive a great nourishment from
the honey and become so large that a successful confinement is almost
impossible. In representing Beloved as an actual human being, Morrison has
registered the continued existence of two African traditional religious
beliefs, one from the Yoruba and Igbo, and one from the Akamba people of
Kenya. |
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