This paper will examine some of the epistemological issues that emerge in the context of discussing the relationship between Africanness, Ubuntu, death and Community Psychology. Most Africans have grown up in cultures that are intricately intertwined with the traditional religion of that ethnic group. These indigenous African religions vary in detail but they agree in essentials such as spiritual nature of the world, the existence and remoteness of God, the role of spirits and mystical powers, the role of ancestors or the living dead and the way humans relate to their world. African worldview was used; this refers to the way in which Africans perceive their world which, in turn, in
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