Entre Africanité et Afro-Américanité.Divinités « akan » et culte des ancêtres aux États-Unis

• Main Author: Pauline Guedj
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative 2007-07-01
• Series: Ateliers d'Anthropologie
• Subjects: African American; ancestors worship; reafricanization; « Akan » religion; United States
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/752

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.