Sasha and Zamani are two aspects of time as expressed in some Eastern and Central African cultures.[which?]
People must learn from the past to act wisely in the present to create a good future.
According to James Loewen in his book Lies My Teacher Told Me: The recently departed whose time overlapped with people still here are the Sasha, the living dead.
[1] Loewen cites and paraphrases the explanation from African Religions and Philosophy by John Mbiti.
It includes the time of myth when all the stories of creation took place and when the great and famous heroes of the past performed their exploits (Anderson 1986, Mbiti 1994).