African and African Diaspora Tradition Founders

Founders of traditional African religious movements and their diaspora continuations, including a leader of the Haitian Vodou ceremony that helped ignite the Haitian Revolution, prophetic founders of Kongo and Central African independent churches, a leading custodian and voice of Yoruba Ifa divination, a founding priest figure of Akan traditional religion in Ghana, a Xhosa prophet whose cattle-killing prophecy reshaped nineteenth century Xhosa history, and the founder of the Rastafari movement in Jamaica.