AKAN COSMOLOGY AKAN CULTURAL SYMBOLS PROJECT Hye anhye - Unburnable The Akan believe that the universe was created by a Supreme Being, whom they refer to variously as O b o ade e (Creator), Nyame (God), O domankoma (Infinite, Inventor), Ananse Kokuroko (The Great Spider; The Great Designer), etc. The Akan religious thought is essentially theocentric and theistic, with the Supreme Being, God at ...

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.

A New Look at JuJu : The Pope's Apology to Africans by N. Adu Kwabena-Essem ...

ANCESTORS AS ELDERS IN AFRICA IGOR KOPYTOFF ANCESTOR cults and ancestor worship loom large in the anthropological image of sub-Saharan Africa and few would disagree with Fortes that 'comparatively viewed, African ancestor worship has a remarkably uniform structural framework' (Fortes, 1965: 122). The general pattern may be quickly summarized. Ancestors are vested with mystical powers and ...

African Traditional Religions Many people consider African religions to be limited to Animism and Tribal religions. Africa is a vast continent, with many races, but in religion as in other matters the continent is divided at the Sahara Desert. North Africa belongs to the Mediterranean world and the religion of Islam was established there from the seventh century AD. Islam spread only slowly down ...

Benin-Voodoo ...

Quartey-Papafio, A.B. The Ga Homowo Festival , Journal of the African Society, Vol. 19, 1919 THE GA HOMOWO FESTIVAL It is not intended here to trace the origin of the Ga Homowo or Harvest Custom of the Accra peoples. This takes place yearly according to the Native Calendar as given out by the Priest of the Fetish Dantu of the Damte Dsanwe people of the Asere Quarter. Asere is a sub-division ...