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 ...

MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Thousands of devotees of different African-based religions on Friday flocked to the waterfront of the Uruguayan capital, part of an annual Feb. 2 offering to the Yoruba goddess ...

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), ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Voodoo, Santeria and other religions with African roots are drawing followers in the United States among immigrants and black Americans interested in their ancestry, their leaders say.

The article discusses the often erroneous assumptions that Western scholars hold about African religion (this refers to the religious beliefs and practices of Africans before the introduction of Islam ...

Part I. Living and dying in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Demography, distribution, and diasporic streams -- Kinship, family, and household formation -- Disease, mortality, and master power -- ...