Culture, as Jesse Mugambi (1) observes, has six main pillars: politics, economics, ethics, aesthetics, kinship and religion. And out of these, religion "is by far the richest part of the African heritage." (2) It shapes their cultures, their social life, their politics, and their economics and is at the same time shaped by this same way of life. J. O. Awolalu attempts a definition of African Religion when he says,
