Codification, Documentation, and Transmission of Knowledge in African Traditional Religion

African epistemology provides a close linkage between the physical and metaphysical, demonstrated especially in the prevalent belief in reincarnation and ancestral worship. It also explains why Africans ascribe mystical interpretations and meanings to physical phenomenon. This way, essential aspects of indigenous African knowledge, that is, the experiences gained over centuries of interaction with the environment, have been enshrined in religious and spiritual edicts, beliefs, and practical activities to maintain social order well-being. African traditional religious knowledge, therefore, assumes such expressions as spiritual worship, medical practice, customary law/taboos, and identity and worldviews of the people gathered by custodians like priests, healers, traditional pharmacists, religious heads, elders, and traditional rulers to be disseminated through various ways of learning.