From their blog: >A few notions that underlie this idea of being “Indigenous” in a particular place in Africa may seem obvious, but need stating: >The importa

From their blog: >A few notions that underlie this idea of being “Indigenous” in a particular place in Africa may seem obvious, but need stating: >The importance of knowing ones’ ancestors and their ties to the land > Knowledge of local power structures and traditions > Knowledge of religious and spiritual traditions that are tied to land and living in a particular place > Knowledge of language, ethnic traditions, and governance > That language and ethnicity may intersect in unusual ways, and neither is necessarily an indicator of indigeneity The criterion seems to be, "how much alienation of European modernity have you absorbed?", which is just kinda strange to me; everyone in Africa who is not an Afrikaner has been there for tens of thousands of years and has some measure of a relationship to their ethnic traditions, so what would be the threshold? Native Americans have a similar situation where there's a spectrum of "alienation". The displacement of the more primordial human lineages such as the Hadza and Khoisan happened ~8,000 years ago in the Bantu expansion, from which the majority of African languages we know today descend.