This is a good example of a bush church.My increasing personal interest would make me a willing partner with my paternal grandmother, Fanny E. Reid, particularly in our excursions into the “bush.” We traveled to different religious ceremonies by public transportation to as far as Chivo-Chivo and Chilibre which today are as far by automobile as they were in those days of the late 1940’s. Continue reading
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This is a Matriarch, a member of the
You may recall my constant, and at times tiresome, complaint that no one ever spoke to me or any other kid about such things as religion or religious practices in our early childhood. It was not until I had grown and made my own choices concerning these issues that I would seek to participate in these practices with my paternal grandmother. Growing up with my grandmother, however, I would remember meeting Beji-Nite practitioners and adepts. They would be coming and going at our home in Magnolia Building where I was growing up. Continue reading
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