| Summary: | The first « Akan » shrine house based on the practices of the Akonedi Shrine in Larteh Kubease, Ghana, was born in New York in 1967. It assembled many African American practitioners who used « Akan » religion to search for their roots. Analyzing the history of the « Akan » movement in America, dealing with its current reality as well as describing some of its rituals, this paper will study the way in which ancestors worship constitute today a new step in the reafricanization process in North America. Worshipping their African American ancestors along with their African gods, the practitioners of the « Akan » religion have managed to include their own experience in their effort to go back to their ancestral roots.
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