(Paid link) When the highest god, Mpungu, had set the heavenly bodies and all things living in their places, he made a man and a woman and endowed them with reason. However, these two human beings did not as yet possess mutima, or heart. Mpungu then prepared to depart to his home. He called all…… Continue reading 3000 Years of Black Poetry by Alan Lomax and Raoul Abdul [Introduction]