African Traditional Religion
   Although there are cultural variations in belief among Africans, author Kwabena Dei Ofori-Attah believes they are not strong enough to blur the common strands that give Africa its distinctive religious character.
   http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/aern/afridan.html

African Traditional Religions
   A short overview of the many Traditional Religions practiced among people of differing cultural, linguistic, and ethnic groups; gives names for the supreme deity in many African languages; part of a larger site on polytheism.
   http://jpdawson.com/modrelg/relafri.html

Akan Cosmology and Symbolism
   This site describes Akan cosmology and illustrates it through traditional Akan religious symbols, each of which encodes within its graceful lines a theological or moral belief or lesson. The integration of this rich traditional Akan symbolism into the Rom
   http://www.marshall.edu/akanart/akancosmology.html

Ancestors as Elders in Africa by Igor Kopytoff
   Ancestor cults loom large in the anthropological image of Africa, but only certain dead with particular structural positions are worshipped as ancestors; this paper presents a study of ancestor and elder veneration among the matrilineal Suku of south-west
   http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Fdtl/Ancestors/kopytoff.html

Man and the Gods in Yoruba Art
   An exhibit of Yoruba religious art, with brief explantions of the iconography of the deities depicted.
   http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~conner/yoruba/man.html

The African Experience of God through the Eyes of an Akan Woman
   By Mercy Amba, an article in Cross Currents, the journal of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life.
   http://www.aril.org/african.htm

Voodoo in Benin, 1996
   In 1996 the government of Benin declared that Voodoo and other ATRs (practiced by about half of the population) are officially recognized religions on a par with Islam and Christianity, and gave ATR its own national holiday, January 10.
   http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/34/011.html

West African Cosmogony
   Origin Myths of Mande, Yoruba, and Cameroon.
   http://www.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/cosmo.html

West African Dahomean Vodoun
   Large site created by an African-American Priestess, to initiate others across the diaspora. Site features both Dahomean Vodoun and Mami Wata traditions of West Africa, with articles on these and other ATRs in Benin, Togo, and Ghana; bibliography; links t
   http://www.mamiwata.com/

Yoruba Religion
   A brief introduction to the religion and rituals of Yorubaland.
   http://www.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/Yrelig.html