Encyclopedia of African Religion

730 Xhosa class among the people. The sangoma in her or his function as healer, diviner, mediator, herbalist, philosopher, and p ...

YAM The yamis a lar ge rootve getableth at resemblesa tube.The vegetableis sometimescalledatuber. It is widespread in Wes t Afri ...

732 Ya m Ewe farmers carrying yams on their heads emerge from the forest to offer thanks to the ancestral gods for a successful ...

festival. Among the Ibo, the men go to the farms and dig up the new yams and bring them back for the women to cook. They must di ...

drums, the petit, seconde, and maman, which are accompanied by the ogan, or a piece of iron that is beaten during the rhythm. Ti ...

effort to maintain their powerful role as traders. Thus, the celebration of Siala is often commemo- rated by warlike dances. The ...

736 Yemo. .nja Wooden sculpture of the female Yoruba Orisha Yem. onja.. Source: Pamela Reed. ...

dockworkers, boatwrights, fishermen and -women, sailors, swimmers, and others who work, live, or travel around water. She is the ...

brutal authority of the slavemasters. The runaways created their own African communities. The Dutch referred to these Africans a ...

Yoruba kingdoms’ politics. Today, Brazil has the largest number of Yoruba and Yoruba-descended people outside of Africa (with an ...

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ZARMA RegardingAfricanreligions,theZarmarepresent th e complexintersect betweenthe retentionsof traditional African sp iritualsy ...

742 Zin that these “forces and waves” are God in motion. The Zarma–Songhai believe that the different con- centrations of spirit ...

anchored in a common African spiritual heritage that can be traced back to the Kemetic religious and philosophical thought. Inde ...

loyal to both Zoser and Imhotep for saving their lives and their land. The second major event of this period was the building of ...

action. The ritual role of women is further exem- plified in the relationship between women and inkosazana yezulu, whose feature ...

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Th e followinglist of th e namesof Godin Africa was compiled by th e sch olarand au thorDr. Emeka Nwadiora of TempleUn ive rsity ...

748 Appendix: Names of God in Africa GUSI Erioba KAMASIA Asees KIPSIGI Ngolo KONI Asiis AKAMBA Mutuangi MERU Murungu LUO Nyakola ...

FAJULU Ngun DOOALA Owasi JUMJUM Dyon KAKWA Nguleso KUKU Nguletet LOKOIYA Oichok LOTUKO Naijok MARAKA Mboli MEBAN Juong MONDARI N ...