Nigerian astronomer Johnson Urama wants to promote the future of astronomy in Africa by looking deep into its past. African astronomical systems are as old as the people themselves, because our forefathers depended on the skies for navigation, for agriculture, for their calendar, for their rituals. Practically everything revolved around the sky. The calendar, largely based on astronomy, determined farming periods, and everything was organized around that. Before the advent of the modern calendar, the African calendar was lunar. And even now, in some parts of Africa, calendars are still based in lunar systems.
Posted on: Wed, 07 May 2014 07:43:36 +0000
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