THE BLACK HAND OF GOD

R.S. Basi

 For over twenty years, R.S. Basi has studied and written about law and the environment, from law journals to magazines, on topics as varied as international environmental law and diversity in the workplace. In the early 1980’s while crossing the Congo by pirogue, or dugout canoe, he was introduced to the story of Kimpa Vita. Since graduating law school in 1994, he has worked, lived, and traveled extensively in central and eastern Africa, all the while collecting information on African life and society.  The Black Hand of God is the culmination of his research, wanderings across the continent, and observations of African and American life. He argues that African oral history is mistakenly discounted in favor of obviously biased Eurocentric narratives and hopes that we will one day catalog and investigate more of the numerous and diverse African oral traditions.

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