ABSTRACT
This chapter uses African verbal arts to examine African traditional religion for the illumination, provides about the location and role of the African woman in selected African communities. Religion and religious consciousness are common denominators of every society's quest for self-knowledge. Growing up in the colonized and Christianized African world, the author was introduced to Western religious thought through both church and school. Most societies across the world have accepted Western Christian thought about women in general and its impact on African women in particular. For contemporary African nations and with regard to colonization, part of the rupture experienced by citizens in general and leaders in particular is the lessening of the place of women in many aspects of social experience. The contemporary African Christian continues to have the option to subscribe to various alternatives, especially with regards to where the African ancestors spend eternity.
