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| The 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.
http://www.aril.org/african.htm |
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| The Ancestral Call  |
| An online newsletter dedicated to African Traditional Religion around the world, with a focus on Yoruban religion and culture in America.
http://www.theancestralcall.com/articles.htm |
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| The Ga Homowo Festival by A.B. Quartey-Papafio  |
| Originally published in the Journal of the African Society, Vol. 19, in 1919, this essay describes the religious customs of the Ga people of Ghana as they existed independently of Roman Catholic influence.
http://members.tripod.com/tettey/festival.htm |
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| Voodoo in Benin, 1996  |
| In 1996 the government of Benin declared that Voodoo and other ATRs (practiced by about half of the population) are officially recognized religions on a par with Islam and Christianity, and gave ATR its own national holiday, January 10.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/34/011.html |
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| West African Cosmogony  |
| Origin Myths of Mande, Yoruba, and Cameroon.
http://www.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/cosmo.html |
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| West African Dahomean Vodoun  |
| Large site created by an African-American Priestess, to initiate others across the diaspora. Site features both Dahomean Vodoun and Mami Wata traditions of West Africa, with articles on these and other ATRs in Benin, Togo, and Ghana; bibliography; links to related pages.
http://www.mamiwata.com/ |
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| Yoruba Religion  |
| A brief introduction to the religion and rituals of Yorubaland.
http://www.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/Yrelig.html |
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