Dagbarmatey, (V/R), April 14, GNA - Dr Darteh Kumordzi, President of the African System of Spirituality and Science has advised Ghanaians not to shun their culture and religion in favour of foreign ones. He said Africans were gradually losing touch with their roots, values, beliefs and sense of belonging and had adopted Christianity and other foreign religions.

Dr Kumordzi was speaking at this year's annual convention of the followers of the Afetorku Deity at Dagbarmatey in the Akatsi District at the weekend.

He noted that the situation was greatly affecting the psychic of the Africans as they abandoned their age-old psychology of life. "African religion thrives on truth and frowns upon hypocrisy and corruption all of which the foreign religions take for granted," he said.

Dr Kumordzi noted that all religions were culturally based but built around the same concept of the supreme being. He asked Africans to ignore the propaganda by people to alienate them from their roots through the use of foreign religions as tools to amass wealth and power.

Hunua Yao Dunyo, the High Priest and President of the Ghana Psychic and Traditional Healers Association urged the followers to abide by their faith and the rules and taboos of the shrine for protection and blessing.

He urged them to love one another and take part in development projects initiate by the shrine and their various communities. Thousands of followers of the deity attending the one week celebration which coincided with Easter, made offerings of fowls as gratitude for their blessings. They made confessions of their sins and partook in a communal feast of mashed yam.