Encyclopedia of African Religion

FON The Fon people of present-day Benin are the people of the Dahomey Kingdom, often referred to by Europeans as Dahomeans. Thei ...

The Fon also subscribe to a historical record, the Book of Fa or the “system of writing of the Creator,” which, much like the Bo ...

medicinal gbo associated with leaves and herbs. There are different classifications of gbo, which is created from organic materi ...

Food 273 An offering bowl in the form of a mother and child with supporting figures. Bowls such as this were used by Yoruba chie ...

one. During the period of family mourning, it is customary for friends and relatives of the deceased to bring gifts of food to t ...

entirely reflective of what are complex and fluid rit- ual practices present throughout the African World. Tiffany D.Pogue See a ...

refer to the Fulbe as Peul. Yet in Nigeria, the Hausa call them Fulani, and the Mandinka in Guinea and Sierra Leone give them th ...

such as “Now we must stop thinking...about you, we bury you”...and “Oh! Father leave us, here is your stool” demonstrate this. H ...

On the 40th day after burial, the spirit of the deceased is “created” in the form of an egúngún. This “spirit of the deceased” a ...

GA Th e Gaarea small ethnic groupcomprising a po pul atio n of nearly700,000 peop le in the south of themoderncountr y of Ghana. ...

280 Gamo Religion wearing white shoes or loving red dresses. In that case, the Ga coffin maker would create a coffin that looked ...

prescriptions laid down by the ancestors and they are pleased. Men who are the social media- tors for the population perform sac ...

power and energy is recognition that they cannot be escaped. Whenever the Gèlèdè festival is planned, men are used in the celebr ...

their African ancestral land. During the days of slavery, the nameGinen/Guinéebecame a generic term used to refer to West Africa ...

As a conclusion, it may be said that Ginen reinforces and identifies Vodu as an African- based religion and philosophy and compl ...

African cosmology and the conception of life. But what is meant by God in Africa? This entry begins by contrasting the perspecti ...

the letter to Hebrews. African traditional religion contains “not only the seeds but also the fruit” of the word of God. Thus, C ...

product of a long and sophisticated theological reflection that understood well that, although humans speak of God in anthropolo ...

being near to people (Adro) and at the same time “far away” (Adroa). This same notion is found among the Baluba, who express the ...

mother at the same time to express what he does for human beings as protector and source of life. The image of God as Mother is ...