MENDING THE BROKEN PIECES: INDIGENOUS RELIGION AND SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NORTHERN GHANA

This book engages the existing polarized debate in which Africa s religio-cultural traditions are viewed as militating against its development. Pitched between the desire for development and the apparent lack of any significant progress within the context of a globalized world, the study finds its expression within the ambit of indigenous religions and sustainable rural development. Using the Nankani of Northern Ghana as an example, the book illustrates how the religio-cultural traditions of Africans undergird both their thought processes and development. With an overview of the Nankani and their worldview, the study underscores how the African religio-cultural systems constitute a frame of thought that is influential to their analysis of contemporary practices and discourses. It observes that despite the centrality of this religious dimension, the apparent lack of genuine progress is not a product of their religio-cultural systems; but the inability of their external development partn