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Kudos to whomever began the article -- likely as a result of my mentioning it in a discussion some time ago. But it is inaccurate. We had a history before we came here. The concept of the Kalunga line existed before Africans were kidnapped and transported to the New World, and it refers to bodies of water, in general -- not just the Atlantic ocean -- and can refer to rivers and lakes as well. Furthermore, the Kalunga line is not the ocean itself, as the article imprecisely states; it is the horizon line that is the line separating the land of the living from the land of our Ancestors.
West African river-based cultures/religions account in great measure for the resonance and persistence of the River Jordan/("Jerdin") throughout African-American protestant religious expression. Common colloquial expressions, such as "this side"/"the other side of the River," referring to those who remain and those who have passed on, are common metaphors in religious and secular speech -- particularly among older African-Americans with southern roots -- and especially, in Louisiana, where I'm from. Of the enslaved Africans of Louisiana, many came from the Angola/Kongo region, with a heavy concentration of Kongo Africans in New Orleans. (Hence, Congo Square, the epicenter of mass, ritual African cultural expression during slavery.) deeceevoice (talk)
