JOIN US FOR OUR NEXT SACRED TRADITIONS PROGRAM, A CCCADI SERIES DEDICATED TO ADVOCATING FOR THE EDUCATION AND PRESERVATION OF AFRICAN-BASED SPIRITUALITY.

For our upcoming virtual event, we have partnered with The BEAUCOUP HOODOO ATRs Book Club to present a special screening of Voices of the Gods (1985) followed by a Q&A with the Brooklyn-based filmmaker Al Santana, Okomfo Dr. Adwoa Tano, a priest in the Akan tradition and Iya Mandisa Mchawi, Osun Priest and Alásè in the Lucumi tradition. The discussion will be moderated by Iya Shantrelle P. Lewis, founder of ATRs BOOK CLUB and Sango Priest in the Lucumi tradition.

Voices of the Gods documents the rich legacy of ancient African religions practiced today in the United States. It provides rare insights into the practices and beliefs of the Akan and Yoruba religions and illustrates how mass media has been used to denigrate these belief systems. The film also includes an intimate and respectful study of an Egungun ancestral communion ceremony and daily life in the Yoruba village of Oyotunji in Sheldon, South Carolina, the only traditional African village of its kind in the U.S. today.