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• Adinkra Symbols - Symbols used in the culture and traditions of Ghana, West Africa.
• Africa2020 - Religion - Daily religious news and information from around the African Union.
• 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.
• African Religions - Brief description of the commonalties among ATRs.
• African Religions and Culture - All aspects of religion in Africa: African Traditional Religions, African Initiated Churches, African Christianity, and African Islam.
• African Religions and Their Derivatives - Background information and links.
• Africa South of the Sahara - Religion - Stanford University Libraries/Academic Information Resources.
• 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
• 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.
• The Ancestral Call - An online newsletter dedicated to African Traditional Religion around the world, with a focus on Yoruban religion and culture in America.
• Ancestors and Inquices - Kongo-derived religions are based on veneration of named ancestors (Nkuyu), water spirits or remote ancestors (Simbi), nature spirits or remotest ancestors (Inquises), and the high god (Nzambi Mpongo).
• 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.
• Basic Standards of Palo and Lukumi Beliefs - A detailed exposition of the differences and similarities between the deities, rituals, and practices of Kimbisa / Espiritismo / Palo Monte traditions on the one hand and Lukumi / Yoruba / Osha / Catholic traditions on the other -- and a path of syncretism that unites the two, especially in Cuba.
• Man and the Gods in Yoruba Art - An exhibit of Yoruba religious art, with brief explantions of the iconography of the deities depicted.
• 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