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Education a Key to Success

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Education can be defined as   the act or process of educating or being educated. This definition is from a personal perspective. There are three types of education, the formal, informal and non-formal. Personally I have had the chance to experience formal education as well as have reservations about it, I have also had the chance to hear some concern of people. People from different background have different opinions when it comes to education, but the one fact for sure and it is that getting a formal education is the key to becoming successful in life. The goal of this paper is elaborate on these points.                                                                                                        Gaining a formal edu...

Oral Narratives as Reflected in African Tradition Religion.

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  Since African Tradition Religion has no written form of scripture, for indigenous African peoples “hi story” often refers to accounts of events as narrated in stories, myths, folktales and songs. Myth and other oral history are important in providing continuity of their culture, customs and traditions. Some of the things like belief in the Supreme Being, moral values and justice, divine hierarchy and immorality and reincarnation are learnt from oral traditions.   One and foremost, the religion of the African recognize the Supreme Being who is the sole creator of the universe. The Fon of Benin, in West Africa believe in de Supreme Being, Mawu is of indeterminate gender. Mawu is sometimes female (Lisa) and sometimes male (Mawu). In the Akan canon of God, J.B. Danquah records a verse from the Akan songs (which are usually played with a talking drum) that praises Nyame as the creator: “Odomankoma, / He created the Thing, / Hewer – out Creator, / He creator the Thing, / What di...