01561nas a2200217   4500000000100000008004100001653001100042653001800053653001400071653001300085653001700098653001300115653001400128653001400142653001200156100001400168245009500182856015300277300001200430520090100442       2022                            d10aAfrica10aDissemination10aKnowledge10aMedicine10aPreservation10areligion10aSpiritual10atradition10aWorship1 aT. Falola00aCodification, Documentation, and Transmission of Knowledge in African Traditional Religion  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85165048432&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-030-89500-6_38&partnerID=40&md5=dd2ffb5abfc302e7aec5ca6e366a7852  a497-5143 aAfrican 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.