WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -African religion is found primarily in oral sources, including stories, myths, proverbs, prayers, ritual incantations, songs, names of people and places, and the specialized and carefully guarded knowledge of religious personages.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ancestors, or the living-dead, are believed to be disembodied spirits of people who lived upright lives here on earth, died ‘good’ and natural death, that is at ripe old age, and received the acknowledged funerary rites. They could be men or women.

Detailed explanation-3: -The founders of African traditional religion are the African ancestors. These are the men and women who have lived and died, handing over the religion to their descendants.

Detailed explanation-4: -Though there is no strict time and place of worship, worship takes place in special shrines, temples, altars, groves and other sacred places used for public sacrifices and prayers. Shrines are sanctuaries for animals and humans. Temples are huge houses, generally cared for by a priest.

Detailed explanation-5: -Christianity came first to the continent of Africa in the 1st or early 2nd century AD. Oral tradition says the first Muslims appeared while the prophet Mohammed was still alive (he died in 632). Thus both religions have been on the continent of Africa for over 1, 300 years.