Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development

Society is dynamic. So also is the religious institution and indeed the worship God. The functionalists had argued and correctly too, that for any institution (Religious institution inclusive) to be alive it must have some roles or functions which it performs in the society. Further to that, for such an institution to perform its roles, it must be dynamic as the society itself. The inversion and conquest of Africa by the colonialists with their missionary religion were not able to eradicate indigenous African practices completely. The encounter of African Traditional Religion with Christianity and Islam witnessed a robust exchange of cultural facets. Uboma land was not left out in the ensuring debacle.

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