Core intuitions about life persist across oral and written African thought

Evidence

The relationship between the individual and the community synthesises African Vitalogy. Thus, it results that in every phase of the African way of thinking – both the traditional way where values are transmitted orally and in the successive phase where values are transmitted in written form – the intuitions of life that we have insisted upon are always the same, even though each period has its own originality. The idea of life and eternal life is the foundation of the African way of thinking – yesterday, today, and tomorrow. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 334