West Africa – Martin Stringer Quartet

The Akan Doctrine of God

I have just finished reading Joseph Buakye Danquah’s book on the Akan doctrine of God. This was written in 1941 and first published in 1944. It was part of a larger attempt to bring together the thought and ideas of the Akan people but much of the rest of the text was destroyed in aContinue reading “The Akan Doctrine of God”

Exploring the Idea of Regionalism in Religion

One of the books I read over Christmas was Susan Vogel’s book on the Baule, based on an exhibition at Yale in 1997. It was not so much the art that struck me, or really the ethnographic details of the Baule, although that did illuminate certain elements of our visit to Ivory Coast back inContinue reading “Exploring the Idea of Regionalism in Religion”