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Boshongo A Bantu Tribe

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Creation stories are representative accounts of how the world and its populations came about. These stories first developed in verbalized tradition in different tribe, cultures and societies. According to my understanding about the story I read in the book about the creation in Boshongo a Bantu tribe, is an example of myth story of creation. Boshongo story shows that, there were nothing in the beginning. The man Bumba and water were the only creatures living on the land. Bumba plays a good role as the creator of all other living things. He just uses to retched and strained in pain then vomit up the sun. According to my understanding based on this story is that, most of the African creation stories derive from myths. There is no proved showed

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