Krobo People Of Ghana: Beads And Initiation Rites
The Krobo people are grouped as part of Ga-Dangme ethnolinguistic group and they are also the largest group of the seven Dangbe ethnic groups of Southeastern Ghana. They are farming […]
Category Archives: Spirituality
Travel Postcard: 48 Hours In Benin’s Voodoo Heartland
(Reuters) – The small club-shaped West African country of Benin is not on most tourists’ radar but its palm-fringed white sand beaches in the south and surprisingly good wildlife parks […]
Allah Is Also African
You know me, I do not blaspheme. I only struggle to weave thoughts around the commonest sense without offending thinking minds. The desire to ask the people of this country […]
Nigeria’s Igbo Jews: ‘Lost tribe’ of Israel?
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — A Shabbat service is underway at the Ghihon Hebrew Research synagogue in the Jikwoyi suburb of Nigeria’s federal capital territory. Fourteen year-old Kadmiel Izungu Abor heads there […]
Conquering Witches, Corruption And Armed Robbers
My brother propped his coarse-haired arms on the seat’s leather armrest and shook his head. “I don’t think you should go, Chika. But no one listens to me,” he said. […]
Mysticism In Traditional Yoruba Culture
“I’m training to be a Yoruba priestess,” she said with her face scrunched in utmost sincerity. The confession from the young African-American student alarmed the Nigerian students at the Georgia […]
Straight Talk And Free Food At Ghana’s Pastor School
Religious stories always catch my eye, especially when they relate to Africa or the African diaspora. So when my gaze caught the headline “Straight talk and free food at Ghana’s […]
The Rise Of African-Based Religions In America
The placement of fallen fragments of coconut helped William Jones decide on whether or not to go to graduate school. The Yoruba priest that Jones […]
Cemetery Of African Slaves Honored In Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Wearing full-skirted white dresses and turbans, the religious leaders chanted blessings and sprinkled water on the concrete floor of a modest house near this city’s […]
Afrocentric Confessions 