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BELIEVERS 59 Links
   
Alafia Vodu Tradition 
Ara Ifa Publishing 
Awo Study Center 
Asomdwee Fie 
   
Baba Ishangi Memorial 
   
Cultural Expressions 
Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye  
Ceremonial Bata Drumming 
   
Egbe Mimo Anago Ile Osun 
Elegba.com 
 Elerii Ipin (Ifa Magazine) 
Folk Cuba 
   
Ifa Knowledge.com 
Ifa Orunmila Ventures 
Ijo Orunmila, Fasina Falade 
Ile Awo Orisa NEW 
Ile Ashe 
Ile Axe Opon Afonja 
Ile Esan 
Ile Ise Ejiogbe Ifa Temple 
Ile Iya Mi Osun Muiywa 
Ile Jalumi 
Ile Olokun 
Ile Orunmila, Chief Aluko 
International Congress of Orisha Tradition and Culture 
Ile Okanran 
Ile Orunmila African Imports  
Ile Osikan 
Inquice Web: Kongo Spirituality 
Institute of Afrikan Studies & Knowledge 
   
     
Kolanut / Obi Abata Communion 
Kompan Adepa 
   
Le Peristyle Haitian Sanctuary 
Lucumi Church 
Lydia Cabrera library 
Mami Wata: West African Dahomean Vodoun 
Temple of Nyame Dua 
   
Obákosó NEW 
Oba Sekou Ministries 
Okomfo Adua Tacheampong 
Onipa Abusia 
Orisa Mailing List 
Orisha Devotees of Belize 
Oshun's Honey Pot NEW 
Osun Festival in Osogbo 
Oturarera 
Outstanding Priests of ATR's  
Orisa org 
Oyotunji Village, Official Site 
Oyotunji Village Rare Photos  
   
Palo.org 
Smai Tawi Ankh Ascension Renaissance 
   
Temple of Ifa/Ile Ifa Inc. 
Traditional Religion in Ihiagwa (Igbo People) 
   
Vodun & Orisa in Benin  
   
White Chalk 
Wind Whispers 
   
Yoruba Religion 
Yoruba Ritual ArchiveVideo - May Require Windows Media Player or Real Player
Yanvalou (Vodun) Dance InitiatesVideo - May Require Windows Media Player or Real Player

RESEARCH 63 Links
These resources were developed by for academic or intellectual purposes. The content is limited in it's ability to provide insight into indigenous culture, which can only be completely defined through experience. You should be descerning and cautious in allowing outsiders to define the beliefs of others, under the guise of unbiased "research". All research has bias.
 
 Geography, Maps, Flags etc. 
Religions Practiced in Africa by MapMap
Slave Trade Map & African-American AncestryMap
States in Nigeria Map
Transatlantic Slave Trade RouteMap
Transatlantic Slave Trade Route & Goods Traded in "New World"Map
Map & Graph: Religion: Religions by CountryChart
African Countries: Principal Languages, Religions, Flag and History 
Adherents.com - Religion by Location 
   
 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 
   
 Ancestors 
Ancestor Veneration 
Efe/Gelede ceremonies Among the western YorubaVideo - May Require Windows Media Player or Real Player
Egungun MasqueradeVideo - May Require Windows Media Player or Real Player
Egungun Masquerade at ImewuroVideo - May Require Windows Media Player or Real Player
Egungun Masquerade at OruVideo - May Require Windows Media Player or Real Player
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 
   
   
 Akan 
Abusua & Nton 
Akan Cultural Symbols Project  
Akan Cosmology 
Akan Studies with Foc 
Philosophical Analysis of Akan and Ewe Taboos 
Us on Kwawu (Akan)
 
   
 Animal Sacrifice 
Supreme Court Did Not OK Animal Sacrifices 
   
 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 
   
 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 
   
 Dance 
 List of Traditional African Dances 
   
 Drumming 
 African Drums 
 Akom: The Art of Possession 
 Bata Drumming & Orisa Worship 
 The Batá Drums 
  The Sacred Drum of Santeria 
 Introduction to the Bata 
   
 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 
   
 Scarification 
Aesthetics - Scarification 
Civilizing Scars 
Scarification and Cicatrisation among African cultures 
Scarification: Culture and Beauty 
Wikipedia: Scarification 
   
 Slavery 
Ama: Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 
American Slave Narratives:An Online Anthology 
   
 West Africa, Assorted 
Ewe Gorovodu Shrine in Southern Ghana
 
Ghanas Goldene LegendeVideo - May Require Windows Media Player or Real Player
Ghanas Goldene Legende Slides: 1 2 3
Nkondi or Nkonde (N'kisi) Nail Fetish, Bakongo/Kongo
 
Rites of Passage in Ohafia 
   
 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 
   
 Vodou 
An Introduction to Vodou 
Voodoo Likely the First African-American Religion in America 
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Last Updated: 10-Dec-2005