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The most comprehensive account of traditional African perceptions of and interaction with the other-than-human world is contained in South African (Zulu) traditional health practitioner Credo Mutwa’s book Isilwane: The Animal, where he stresses that in the past, African people did not regard themselves as being above the animals, trees, fish and birds.
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Horsthemke, K. (2015). Traditional African Perceptions and Current Practices — Taboos, Totemism and Spiritualism. In: Animals and African Ethics. The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137504050_6
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