Afe Adogame’s important and timely book provides an insightful and rich contribution to the indigenous religious tradition of Africa. Drawing on substantial ethnographic archival materials, and analyzed through multidisciplinary approaches, Adogame renews conversations on a whole array of phenomena, including cosmology, mythology, kingship, rites of passage, ritualism and gender dynamics, in ways that reinvigorate modern scholarship in African religious traditions. The work also advances current scholarship on indigeneity and demonstrates valuable paths on how best to conduct deep research on the subject.

Jacob K. Olupona is Professor of African Religious Traditions, Harvard Divinity School, with a joint appointment as Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University

Afe Adogame, a historian of religions, writes as a cultural insider and a mother-tongue speaker of the Oza language but who is fully aware of the potential pitfall of bias fraught with writing about one’s ethnic group. ... <i>Indigeneity in African Religions</i> is a welcome addition to the growing literature in the historiography of smaller ethnic groups in Africa and elsewhere, whose histories, worldviews, beliefs, and practices have historically not received adequate scholarly attention. ... Even the modern Oza will find that this book fills an important gap in the historiography of their people group.

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