Question

Describe the role of religion in the African Kingdoms

Answer 1

African spirituality is the essences of the divine connection African people (pan-African) have as a diverse group. It is just as varied from Ethiopia to South Africa, as it is varied from Sudan to outside Africa in India. There is no essentialist quality or genetic relationship that binds all African religions; no unique exclusive spiritual appreciation that holds "African spirituality" into one empirically definable block. The term "African" in the context used here, is the theater of study; with no suggestion of a monolith or exclusivity, bound by some phantom forces to the skin color of Africans, or the geography of Africa. That religious or spiritual experience is locked to culture, and culture is locked to identity, and where one varies— so to does the other.