In the News: African Traditional Religion and the “Modern” World

Ghanaian priest Nana Kwaku Bonsam is the subject of the below articles. His work in Ghana and his year-long stay in the Bronx has highlighted the popularity of African Traditional Religion (ATR) both on the Continent and abroad as well as the complicated relationship between Pentecostalism and ATR in Africa. Are African traditional religions “compatible with being a modern African” as Lipinski suggests?

“A Visit from the Devil: Feared Traditional Priest from Ghana Spends a Year in the Bronx”
Jed Lipinski for The New York Times

Sympathy for the ‘Devil'”
Dennis Laumann for Africa is a Country

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