Reflections on african traditional religions

Abstract

Africa contains a mosaic of people with different linguistic, cultural and religious characteristics. But in this paper it is limited to the area known as Bantu, and within which we take the religious experience of five representative of this great family ethnic groups: the Bakongo (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Angola ), the Bashi (DR Congo), the Banyarwanda (Republic of Rwanda, DR Congo), Baluba Kasai (DR Congo) and Mongo (DR Congo).