| RESEARCH 63 Links |
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| | Geography, Maps, Flags etc. | |
 | Religions Practiced in Africa by Map |  |
 | Slave Trade Map & African-American Ancestry |  |
 | States in Nigeria  |  |
 | Transatlantic Slave Trade Route |  |
 | Transatlantic Slave Trade Route & Goods Traded in "New World" |  |
 | Map & Graph: Religion: Religions by Country |  |
 | African Countries: Principal Languages, Religions, Flag and History | |
 | Adherents.com - Religion by Location | |
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| | General Research | |
 | AfrikaWorld.net | |
 | Bibliography on Traditional African Religion (use w/ descerning eye) | |
 | Cutting to the Essence: Yoruba and Akan Art | |
 | Review of John S. Mbiti's book, Introduction to African Religion | |
 | Standford Resource Page | |
 | Women's Role in Yoruba Society | |
 | Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Religion | |
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| | Ancestors | |
 | Ancestor Veneration | |
 | Efe/Gelede ceremonies Among the western Yoruba |  |
 | Egungun Masquerade |  |
 | Egungun Masquerade at Imewuro |  |
 | Egungun Masquerade at Oru |  |
 | Gelede: Metaphysics and Gender in African Ritual Play | |
 | Gelede & Egungun Festival | |
 | Honoring the Ancestors in vodou | |
 | Libations: Remembering Those on Whose Shoulders We, Today, Stand | |
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| | Akan | |
 | Abusua & Nton | |
 | Akan Cultural Symbols Project  | |
 | Akan Cosmology | |
 | Akan Studies with Foc | |
 | Philosophical Analysis of Akan and Ewe Taboos | |
 | Us on Kwawu (Akan) 
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| | Animal Sacrifice | |
 | Supreme Court Did Not OK Animal Sacrifices | |
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| | Caribbean | |
 | Demonization and Suppression of African Expressions | |
 | Orisha Experience in Trinidad and Tobago | |
 | Orisha Feast | |
 | Steel Island: Drums, Sango and Trinidad | |
 | Spiritual/Shouter Baptists of Trinidad and Tobago | |
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| | Colonialization, Cultural Orientation, Civil Rights | |
 | Effects of Colonialism on the Yoruba Religion | |
 | Future of African Gods: the Clash of Civilizations  | |
 | (In)Visibility and Duality of the Civil Rights and Yoruba Movements: 1950s-1990s | |
 | Transnational Identities, Modernity and World View of Yoruba Americans | |
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| | Dance | |
 | List of Traditional African Dances | |
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| | Drumming | |
 | African Drums | |
 | Akom: The Art of Possession | |
 | Bata Drumming & Orisa Worship | |
 | The Batá Drums | |
 | The Sacred Drum of Santeria | |
 | Introduction to the Bata | |
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| | Medicine | |
 | African Traditional Healers : The Journey from Twaza to Sangoma | |
 | African Traditional Healers and Prevention of Blindness | |
 | Introduction to Igbo Medicine | |
 | MDs Could Learn From African Healers | |
 | Spirits and Spirituality: Alcohol in Caribbean Slave Societies | |
 | Vodou Medicine | |
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| | Scarification | |
 | Aesthetics - Scarification | |
 | Civilizing Scars | |
 | Scarification and Cicatrisation among African cultures | |
 | Scarification: Culture and Beauty | |
 | Wikipedia: Scarification | |
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| | Slavery | |
 | Ama: Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade | |
 | American Slave Narratives:An Online Anthology | |
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| | West Africa, Assorted | |
 | Ewe Gorovodu Shrine in Southern Ghana
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 | Ghanas Goldene Legende |  |
 | Ghanas Goldene Legende Slides: 1 2 3 |  |
 | Nkondi or Nkonde (N'kisi) Nail Fetish, Bakongo/Kongo
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 | Rites of Passage in Ohafia | |
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| | Nigerian, Orisa | |
 | Agbeni Sango Shrine of Ibadan | |
 | Edo Nation  | |
 | Ejigbo, a Brief History | |
 | Urhobo System of Divination and Its Esoteric Language | |
 | Motherland Nigeria | |
 | Orilonise: The Hermeneutics of the Head and Hairstyles Among the Yoruba  | |
 | Susanne Wenger  | |
 | Susanne wenger, Willkefilm  | |
 | The Orichas Say | |
 | Yoruba Divination | |
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| | Vodou | |
 | An Introduction to Vodou | |
 | Voodoo Likely the First African-American Religion in America | |
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