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African calendars vary in type; there are lunar calendars, solar calendars, stellar calendars,[1] and phenomenon calendars.[2]
Types edit
Phenomenon calendars are not focused on “concrete phenomena taking place and constituting time.”[2] Rather, phenomenon calendars are composed of lunar hours and months that are “named as the time for given events such as ‘milking the cattle’ in the morning and the evening, or ‘the sun [being hot]’, from which the month corresponding to October bears its name in the language of the Latuka people.”[2]
Measures of time edit
Among the verb tenses in the Gikuyu language and Kikamba language, “’there are no concrete words or expressions to convey the idea of a distant future’”; the timeframe is conceptually measured not much longer than a few months, and as a maximum, two years.[2]
References edit
- ^ Peek, Philip M.; Yankah, Kwesi, eds. (2004). "Astronomy" (PDF). African Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp. 25–26. doi:10.4324/9780203493144. ISBN 0-203-49314-1. OCLC 62186506. S2CID 162074678.
- ^ a b c d Diagne, Souleymane Bachir (2011). "On Prospective: Development and a Political Culture of Time". Philosophy and African Development: Theory and Practice. Vol. 29. African Books Collective. p. 60. doi:10.4314/AD.V29I1.22185. ISBN 978-2-86978-326-3. ISSN 0850-3907. JSTOR 24482719. OCLC 7787768652. S2CID 145687864.
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