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.
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African Religions and Culture
All aspects of religion in Africa: African Traditional Religions, African Initiated Churches, African Christianity, and African Islam.
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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
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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.
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Cultural Expressions
Culturally rich site with information about African Religion, culture, art, song and theory.
http://www.cultural-expressions.com/ | |
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 | |
New Look at Juju: The Pope's Apology to Africans
Adu Kwabena-Essemn, a journalist based in Ghana, examines the religious and political implications of Pope John Paul II's visit to Benin in 1993, where he apologized for centuries of ridiculing African cultural beliefs by the Western world. Reprinted from "Djembe" magazine, 1995
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