Traditional African Religion and Spirituality

Ancestor cults loom large in the anthropological image of Africa, but only certain dead with particular structural positions are worshipped as ancestors; this paper presents a study of ancestor and elder veneration among the matrilineal Suku of south-west

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• West African Dahomean Vodoun - Large site created by an African-American Priestess, to traditional initiate others traditional across the diaspora. Site features both traditional Dahomean Vodoun and Mami traditional Wata traditions of West traditional Africa, with articles on these and traditional other ATRs traditional in Benin, Togo, and Ghana; bibliography; links t
• Man and the Gods in Yoruba Art - An exhibit of Yoruba religious art, with brief explanations of african the iconography of the deities depicted.
• The Ga Homowo Festival by A.B. Quartey-Papafio - Originally published in the Journal of the African african Society, Vol. traditional 19, in 1919, this essay describes african the religious customs of traditional the Ga people of african Ghana as they existed independently of traditional Roman Catholic african influence.
• Ancestors as Elders in Africa by Igor Kopytoff - Ancestor cults loom large in the anthropological image of Africa, african but only certain dead with particular structural positions are worshipped african as ancestors; this paper presents a study of ancestor and african elder veneration among the matrilineal Suku of south-west
• Akan Cosmology and Symbolism - This site describes Akan cosmology and illustrates it religion and spirituality traditional through traditional Akan religious symbols, each of which religion and spirituality traditional encodes within its graceful lines a theological or religion and spirituality traditional moral belief or lesson. The integration of this religion and spirituality traditional rich traditional Akan symbolism into the Rom
• Voodoo in Benin, 1996 - In 1996 the government of Benin declared that Voodoo and african other ATRs (practiced by about half of the population) are african officially recognized religions on a par with Islam and Christianity, african and gave ATR its own national holiday, January 10.
• The African Experience of God through the Eyes of an Akan Woman - By Mercy Amba, an article in Cross Currents, religion and spirituality african the journal of the Association for Religion and religion and spirituality african Intellectual Life.

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