This book covers various aspects of African traditional cultures that

include: communication, marriage ceremonies, funerals, traditional

rites, witchcraft, traditional cultural activities, and traditional beliefs.

It will undoubtedly appeal to anyone who wants to understand

better our African cultures. The reading of some of the stories will

certainly raise existential questions about the nature of spirits,

truth, and the place of God in the collective mind of the Africans.

Some of the questions are the following: how is it possible that a

human being has his double in an animal known as his totem? How

come that, for people who do not believe in reincarnation, it is the

chief who determines the future of the soul of the deceased? In

"Mourning habits in the West province of Cameroon," it appears

that, if the soul is not taken care of, it will cause physical havoc in

the society. Could there be a link between our souls and the physical

elements of nature? Is skull worshiping among the Bamileke merely

a traditional practice or are they really able to communicate with

their ancestors through the skulls? What has led the Aghem people

to firmly believe that lakes can physically move, that the dead live in

their lakes, that children live in their pre-human state as caterpillars

and may transform into reptiles when they are still babies? What

makes it possible for the human mind to communicate with animals,

exchange messages as is shown in "How animals and things can

speak and communicate in the Yambassa culture"? Apart from the

physical world as we know it, could there truly be a spiritual world

that witches and wizards have access to and which system of values

could this spiritual world be subjected to? Every single paper of

the more than 80 papers and squibs this book comprises is truly

an invitation to explore further the untapped richness of African

cultures.