Badplaas South Africa according to Guy McLaren

The Sangoma Throws the Bones

author: Guy McLaren : Badplaas South Africa
Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Beehive Architecture

author: Guy McLaren : Badplaas South Africa
Sunday, February 19th, 2006

More Architecture

author: Guy McLaren : Badplaas South Africa
Friday, February 17th, 2006

African Architecture

author: Guy McLaren : Badplaas South Africa
Friday, February 17th, 2006

The Sangoma Throws the Bones

author: Guy McLaren : Badplaas South Africa

The witch doctors room , This is where he / she will communicate with the ancestors. The sangomaa throws the bones and foretells the future.

Beehive Architecture

author: Guy McLaren : Badplaas South Africa

Contrary to some uptight westerner, this constitutes architecture, maybe not in the same scale as say the Empire state building but none the less, Consider it stone age architecture if you will, but this does not mean that was designed in the stone age was discarded. Some still build and live in these huts, The example you are looking at here is based on a royal swazi Kraal. This area used to be part of Swaziland. Msibi, the wife of King Mswati I was practicing witchcraft and was banished instead of being executed. The Msibi Clan was moved to this...