MORAL FOUNDATION OF AFRICAN CULTURE: THE YORUBA PERSPECTIVE.
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2013-03-03
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Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba
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The yardstick for measuring any moral foundations in an African culture can be viewed through their various religious beliefs and practices. The one that best exemplifies this is the African Traditional Religion (ATR), which can be seen in the five main structures of the (ATR) which has the belief in God, the Supreme Being at the apex, followed by the belief in divinities, the belief in spirits, belief in ancestors and belief in mysterious powers such as magic and medicine and the present day significance. It is important to note that the five structures provided the basis for the assertion that Africans are in all religious because religion is an expression of a relationship between individuals and God.