Women in African Traditional Religions
FRIDAY M. MBON
There is a certain relation between any religious unit and its power to direct the movement of its most precious human resource, women.... [E]ven though religion in Africa is principally a man's affair, its reason for being is woman, gaurdian of life and link between the living and the dead, between the past and the future.
-Dominique Zahan
Note: Dominique Zahan, the Religion, Spirituality, and Thought of Traditional Africa(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979) 31.