Traditional African religion is a catch-all term for the ethnic and folk religious traditions of the peoples of Africa (especially Sub-Saharan Africa), often involving syncretism with other traditions, especially Christianity and Islam.
Due to the vast scope and diversity of Sub-Saharan African ethnography, there is no single uniting aspect of traditional African religion beyond what is culturally universal of pre-modern religion worldwide, i.e. aspects of oral tradition and animism.
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