Home›Africa›Parent RegionBrowse ByParent RegionThis page groups sacred regions by the wider land they sit inside. Wikipedia notes that the Holy Land is "referring to a region that is mostly between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River." Browsing by parent-region lets a visitor find every sacred region that sits inside the same wider land.FactsParent RegionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedRegions 1Parent RegionFilter Results2 entriesModern AreaAllFrom Senegal and Mauritania east through Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Niger to Nigeria. (1)Gabon, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea (1)Principal Religious TraditionsAllBwiti, among the Fang and neighbouring peoples of Gabon (1)Vodun among the Fon and Ewe and orisha worship among the Yoruba, both of which crossed the Atlantic; the Akan, Igbo, Serer, Dogon and Mande traditions of the wider region; Islam, established in the Sahel from the medieval empires onward and carried by the Tijani and Qadiri orders; and Christianity, including the Aladura and other African-founded churches. (1)Sacred and Liturgical LanguagesAllArabic for Islam and for the Timbuktu manuscript tradition, with African languages also written in the Arabic script as Ajami; the ritual registers of Yoruba, Fon and their neighbours carry the older traditions, and the Ifa corpus is transmitted in Yoruba. (1)Why Placed HereAllCentral Africa is held apart from West Africa and the Caribbean because the equatorial forest traditions of Gabon and its neighbours are not those of the Guinea coast, and folding them together loses the distinction that matters most here. (1)BrowseCompareCentral AfricaParent Region1 entryWest AfricaParent Region1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category TreeComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.