Abstract:Migrations and Mutations of Hauka Geniuses Worship from Niger to Gold Coast (Years 1920-1950)
Hauka are modern geniuses originally from songhay religion (Niger) and conditioned by colonial situation. Worship manages to establish itself in certain outskirts of Accra (Ghana) where it changed and consolidated. It is therefore in the contact of various cultures that the worship of 'geniuses of force'came to be renown so as to give birth, during the 1950's, to an almost autonomous religion. The phenomenon of … Show more
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