Encyclopedia of African Religion

Baganda, it is important to go through all the phases where one learns manners (mpisa), how to greet visitors properly, and how ...

planet because it has gone through four stages. The first is the emergence of the fire, the second is the red stage, where the p ...

92 Bakota Reliquary figure. From Bakota, Gabon. In this area of Africa, nearly all groups venerated the relics of ancestors, whi ...

Balanta 93 philosophy. When people come together in family, they are bonded in one way or another. It might be consanguine or it ...

and their commercial history have established them as significant players in the development of the trade along the coast. Howev ...

who have died can have a significant influence on the way the living carry out their lives. Because the Balengue are a coastal p ...

Bali Kumbat, Bali Gasu, Bali Gansin, Bali Gham, and Bali Nyonga. The Bali Nyonga is the only group that acquired a totally diffe ...

DeLancey, M. (2000).Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. Frings, V. (1996).Kingdom on ...

Nkulu, Ngoy, Nday, Mande, Monga, Numbi, Mbuyu, Mbuya, Banza, Banze, Mwenze, Mwanza, Twite, Kabamba, Kabimbi, Kabange, Kabongo, K ...

the belonging to a community ruled by the “Bulopwe” that is “civilized government” institu- tionalized by the ancestors accordin ...

Davidson, B. (1991).Africa in History:Themes and Outlines(Rev. & exp. ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. Fage, J. D., &am ...

force that animates the universe. It is neither good nor bad, but may manifest itself under both aspects depending on the circum ...

BAMILEKE The Bamileke people are located in the western province of Cameroon. They share a boundary with Anglophone Cameroon. Mo ...

BAMUN The Bamun are an important people from Cameroon. They have a rich religious and ceremo- nial history that reaches to the m ...

first and second world wars. This research intended to rediscover the ancestral philosophical worldview and spiritual values tha ...

African moral values and the value of the Luba conception of God. In a time when the notion of primitive people was taken for gr ...

founding of the kingdom of Nkore. The drums were the fundamental part of the regalia that served to legitimize the Bahinda clan ...

make an offering to an ancestor with the fore- knowledge that the physical acceptance of the offering is impossible, it is the f ...

pertaining to the history of the village or to heroic deeds of a family, to a legend, or to a person pos- sessed by one of theBu ...

Bassa people have Kemetic origins, having migrated from Egypt following the collapse of the Adbassa Empire in the 6th century to ...