African traditional religions

Meet the African women reviving traditional religions — BBC Africa

Africa is rich with a vari­ety of tra­di­tion­al reli­gions and spir­i­tu­al belief sys­tems. How­ev­er dur­ing the colo­nial peri­od mis­sion­ar­ies spread Chris­tian­i­ty through­out the con­ti­nent, and sup­pressed many of these pre-exist­ing belief sys­tems. Africans con­tin­ued to fol­low their tra­di­tion­al belief, in small­er num­bers than before, and these faiths still exist today. Younger African peo­ple, par­tic­u­lar­ly women, have…