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Welcome to the Resource Center for the Native Religions of Africa. Check out our links to other sites, or add your own as we develop this new area of our website.

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Native Religions: Africa
Africa’s 700 million people are divided into three thousand tribes, with almost as many languages and dialects. Traditional African religion is equally diverse. But most include the concept of a high god or creator god as well as many other deities and spirits that can help or hurt human beings. Rituals are practiced to appease gods or ancestral spirits. Rites also mark incidents in the yearly cycle and such human transitions as birth, marriage, and death. Healing and divination are also widely practiced in a religious context.

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Outstanding Priests of Traditional African Religions
Students, Devotees and Priests give recognition to Outstanding Priests of Traditional African Religions.

BES


21st Century Yoruba
21st Century Yoruba highlights the Scientific and Economic Direction of the Yoruba people for the twenty first Century.


African Creation Stories
African Creation Stories


African Religion and Culture
African Religion and Culture


African Traditional & Derived Religion: A Research Guide
African Traditional & Derived Religion: A Research Guide


OATH: Organization of African Traditional Healers
OATH (Organization of African Traditional Healers), is a nonprofit, religious, education, and certification organization, committed to the positive promotion of African Traditional Religions, and the legitimatization of practitioners of ATRs here in the United States, and its surrounding territories.


Religions of the World -- Africa
African and African-Derivative Religions are a large group of beliefs and practices based upon ancient indigenous faiths of sub-Saharan African peoples. Within the last 100 years in Africa indigenous religion has declined under the influence of colonialism, Western acculturation and proselytizing by Islam and Christianity. In the African Diaspora (mainly in the Americas) African-derived belief systems are in a state of impressive growth.


Yoruba Religion
A brief introduction to the religion and rituals of Yorubaland.

HOL


African holiday calendar
2003 African Holidays: Santeria - Old Egyptian.

LCT


Sacred Texts
Texts on the traditional spirituality of Sub-Saharan Africa

 
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