West Africa includes the following countries:
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
There is a wide variety of cultures in all these countries but there is also a lot of similarities in term of music, cuisine, dress, religion beliefs. In West Africa, we can find Islam ( specially in the interior and far west coast), christianity , animism.
We are all more or less familiar with Islam and Christianity.
However animism might be unfamiliar for some of us. Animism can be referred as the “traditional African religions”. It refers to belief systems that attribuate souls to entitites such as humans, animals, plants, etc. Fetishism is also linked to animism and his commonly practice in West Africa.
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