ABSTRACT
Na’im Akbar proposed that the energy system of Black personality is rhythm. Rhythm is flow, flow is interconnecting. It is the desire/striving to unite the Self with the Universe, the striving for unity between the Self and Nature. In this chapter, the author defines a seminal mid-career work that was a major turning point in what has proven to be an unwieldy yet exciting life’s journey. Combining anthropology, dance, poetry, music, theatre, travel and cultural encounters the author has developed author's own brand of a working style: Kadogo Mojo. The symbols are a form of visual language in which ancestral renewal of life is celebrated and its continuance ensured. The arts all express—indeed, establish—the relationship of the people to their ancestors and to their tribal lands through stories of ancestral travel across the landscape. The dynamic African Spirituality of communalism-collectivism, merging or uniting into holistic synthesis, is the driving energy of the African personality.
