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Nine-Night, also known as Dead Yard, is a funerary tradition originating from the Asante people of west Africa and practiced in several Caribbean countries (primarily Jamaica). It is an extended wake that lasts for nine days, with roots from the Akan culture during 9 day period of observing the dead known as Dabɔnɛ (say: dah-boh-neh). [ 1 ]
Followers of traditional African religions are also found around the world. In recent times, religions, such as the Yoruba religion and the Odinala religion (a traditional Igbo religion), Gaboism, [19] are on the rise. The religions of the Igbo and Yoruba are popular in the Caribbean and portions of Central and South America.
African Americans and other African-descended people continue to travel to the African Burial Ground from across the country and around the world and perform libation ceremonies to honor the 15,000-plus African people buried in New York City. [306] [307]
Ram Swarup analyzes the political intention behind laudatory labels like 'tolerant' and hate labels like 'Semitic'. He too points to Africa as an instance of what to avoid: 'The African continent has been under the attack of the two monolatrous religions, Christianity and Islam, for centuries. Under this attack, it has already lost much of its ...
According to Thaddeus Metz and Motsamai Molefe, traditional African religions are monotheistic, as they center around the belief in a single, supreme God who is the creator and sustainer of the universe. This God is regarded as the ultimate source of life and being, similar to the monotheistic understanding found in other major world religions. [6]
Death and After-life Rituals in the eyes of the Shona. Dialogue with Shona Customs in the Quest for Authentic Inculturation. Masaka, Dennis; Chemhuru, Munamato (2011). "MORAL DIMENSIONS OF SOME SHONA TABOOS (ZVIERA)" (PDF). Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa. 13 (3). Mabvurira, Vincent; Muchinako, George Alex; Smit (2021). "Shona ...
In Europe, historians have thought the three- day festival of the dead is a ritualistic remembrance of the deluge in which Halloween the first night is depicting the wickedness of the world before the flood. The second night is spent celebrating the saved who survived the deluge and the last night is meant as an honoring to those who would ...
As African masks are largely appropriated by Europeans, they are widely commercialized and sold in most tourist-oriented markets and shops in Africa (as well as "ethnic" shops in the Western world). As a consequence, the traditional art of mask-making has gradually ceased to be a privileged, status-related practice, and mass production of masks ...