Comparing the concept of Spirit and Soul in the Traditional Religion

Akan and Ewe ethnic groups of Ghana understood God in their traditional religious practices. Highlights of the first writing were the African Traditional Religion the life of the ethnic groups in Ghana; their beliefs customs ritual and taboos. Areas of interest to read in the part one was how Christianity has found an inroad into the lives of so many who were living in deep darkness and slavery to the evil powers. Also how the Christian organizations help free women and girls from the grip of slavery. This condition is under a traditional religion belief called the “trokosi” system or “wives of the ancestral gods.” These ancestral gods lived in the spiritual world which according to ATR is the world populated by spirits. In the Ewe thought they are called Vodou (Vodu or Vudu in Benin and Togo; also Vodon Vodoun Voudou or other phonetically equivalent spellings.Akan and Ewe ethnic groups of Ghana understood God in their traditional religious practices.