Blacks are the only people who were forced to reject their cultural beliefs and traditions from Africa. We were forced to be ashamed and to forget a significant part of our external ancestral customs, rituals and symbols you perhaps refer as “forms”. But whether we like it or not popular traditional African religions "forms" are a very big part of us. Because there are no people without ancestral "practices" that can improve their condition and regain their true freedom. A no knowledge of our African personality in all fields whether in religion, education, medicine, music, song, dance, cooking, talking, walking etc. is meant to prevent us from embracing our ancestral tradition that goes back to millennia. So, unlike you Yan I think today the spirit of our ancestors is stirring our hearts to exorcize this demonic lack of knowledge of our apparent ancestral lifestyle, customs, rituals and symbols along with the perverted western ideas and mentality of course. I maintain our people not only need a debriefing from the intoxication of ignorance but they need to embrace the outward practice of their ancestral culture because they are the basis of our freedom. Trust they will heal our hearts, make us UNIQUE and accept our tradition.

Bantu Kelani.