In front of a packed Gasson 305 Monday night, Rev. Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, S.J, spoke about Africa’s complex religious heritage: a confluence of traditional African spirituality, Christianity, and ...

Zamani: A Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (DECEMBER 2024), pp. 314-338 (26 pages) Three main religious traditions—indigenous African beliefs and practices (African religion), ...

In the suburbs of Seattle, an ancient West-African religion is gaining followers. Yoruba, from the Yoruba people of Nigeria, has been spreading across the U.S. for the last 50 years. The religion is ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The importance of religion to Africans is well known among those who study and ...

The African religious imagination already anticipates Christ. It’s ironic that as I crossed the Walt Whitman Bridge to attend an urban apologetics conference in Philadelphia I encountered the very ...

The only path forward for the West to pursue peace is to fight along ideological lines. The Sahel people are highly religious ...

Does anyone know offhand what the predominant religion would be on the African continent? I am guessing Christianity, but would like some concrete proof and I know I can get my answer here.

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — In a predominantly Anglican region of western Kenya, a long-serving female priest has been elected an Anglican bishop, making her the second woman to hold that rank in a country ...

Postoperative mortality in African hospitals is a “systemic issue,” the researchers said in the study, and is “often ...