“Zamani is not limited to what in English is called the past.
It also has its own “past, “present,” and “future,” but on a wider scale. We might call it the Macro-Time (Big Time). Zamani overlaps with Sasa [the Micro-Time] and the two are not separable. Sasa feeds or disappears into Zamani.
But before events become incorporated into the Zamani, they have to become realized or actualized within the Sasa dimension. When this has taken place, then the events “move” backward from the Sasa into the Zamani. So Zamani becomes the period beyond which nothing can go.
Zamani is the graveyard of time, the period of termination, the dimension in which everything finds its halting point. It is the final store-house for all phenomena and events, the ocean of time in which everything becomes absorbed into a reality which is neither after nor before.”
– John Mbiti, African Religions and Philosophy
