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Ideas and issues for African Americans considering the practice of West and Central African
Traditional Religions.
http://orishaonline.homestead.com/home.html
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West African Dahomean Vodoun
Large site created by an African-American Priestess, to initiate others across the diaspora. Site
features both Dahomean Vodoun and Mami Wata traditions of West Africa, with articles on these and
other ATRs in Benin, Togo, and Ghana; bibliography; links to related pages.
http://www.mamiwata.com/
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Akan Cosmology and Symbolism
This site describes Akan cosmology and illustrates it through traditional Akan religious symbols,
each of which encodes within its graceful lines a theological or moral belief or lesson. The
integration of this rich traditional Akan symbolism into the Roman Catholicism of Ghana is shown,
as well.
http://www.marshall.edu/akanart/akancosmology.html
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Yoruba Religion
A brief introduction to the religion and rituals of Yorubaland.
http://www.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/Yrelig.html
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West African Cosmogony
Origin Myths of Mande, Yoruba, and Cameroon.
http://www.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/cosmo.html
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Voodoo in Benin, 1996
In 1996 the government of Benin declared that Voodoo and other ATRs (practiced by about half of the
population) are officially recognized religions on a par with Islam and Christianity, and gave ATR
its own national holiday, January 10.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/34/011.html
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Shona and Ndebele Religions
Hilde Arntsen, University of Oslo, presents an introduction to the Traditional Religions of
Zimbabwe, whose people communicate with God through their deceased ancestors. Part of a larger site
on all the religions of the nation, including Christiantiy and Traditional-Christian-Syncretic
religions.
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/zimbabwe/religion/arntsen1.html
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Man and the Gods in Yoruba Art
An exhibit of Yoruba religious art, with brief explantions of the iconography of the deities
depicted.
http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~conner/yoruba/man.html
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Ijaw and Ibo Beliefs: Self, Soul, and Afterlife
Death and the afterlife play a large role in the religion of the Ibo and Kalabari (part of the
Ijaw) of Nigeria, who believe in worshipping spirits, in karma, and in the existence of each
person's "two souls." An essay by Karen Hauser.
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/nigeria/ibo.html
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Taking Back Our Gods and Holy Temples
A paper presented at the 1997 Association of Black Psychologists Annual Convention in Washington,
DC, by Kwabena Faheem Ashanti, Ph.D., of North Carolina State University. Urges African Americans
to replace Christianity and Islam with African Traditional Religions.
http://www.ashantitone.com/Syndicated_Columns/TAKING_BACK_OUR_GODS_AND_HOLY_TEMPLES.htm
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Fetichism in West Africa by the Rev. Robert Hamill Nassau
A reprint of the entire 1904 book "Fetichism in West Africa: Forty Years' Observation of
Native Customs and Superstitions by the Rev. Robert Hamill Nassau, M.D. - S.T.D. for Forty Years a
Missionary in the Gabun District of Kongo-Francaise," a valuable (albeit Christian) account of
Congo religion in the 19th century.
http://www.palo.org/palo/fetichism-article.html
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The Ga Homowo Festival by A.B. Quartey-Papafio
Originally published in the Journal of the African Society, Vol. 19, in 1919, this essay describes
the religious customs of the Ga people of Ghana as they existed independently of Roman Catholic
influence.
http://members.tripod.com/tettey/festival.htm
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Ancestors as Elders in Africa by Igor Kopytoff
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-western Congo (Kinshasa).
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Fdtl/Ancestors/kopytoff.html
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The Ancestral Call
An online newsletter dedicated to African Traditional Religion around the world, with a focus on
Yoruban religion and culture in America.
http://www.theancestralcall.com/articles.htm
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African Traditional Religions
A short overview of the many Traditional Religions practiced among people of differing cultural,
linguistic, and ethnic groups; gives names for the supreme deity in many African languages; part of
a larger site on polytheism.
http://jpdawson.com/modrelg/relafri.html
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African Traditional Religion
Although there are cultural variations in belief among Africans, author Kwabena Dei Ofori-Attah
believes they are not strong enough to blur the common strands that give Africa its distinctive
religious character.
http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/aern/afridan.html
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The African Experience of God through the Eyes of an Akan Woman
By Mercy Amba, an article in Cross Currents, the journal of the Association for Religion and
Intellectual Life.
http://www.aril.org/african.htm
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