Dagbarmatey, (V/R), April 14, GNA-Dr. Darteh Kumordzi, President of the African System of Spirituality and Science has advised Ghanaians against shunning their culture and religion in favour of foreign ones. He said Africans are gradually losing touch with their roots and sense of belongingness, values and beliefs to 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 is greatly affecting the psychic of 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. Thousands of followers of the deity attending the one-week celebration which coincided with Easter, made offerings of fowls as gratitude for blessings. They made confessions of their sins and partook in a communal feast of mashed yam.

Dr Kumordzi noted that all religions are culture-based but built around the same concept of the supreme-being and asked Africans to ignore the propaganda to alienate them from their roots by people who use foreign religions as tools to amass wealth and power and keep the people silent.

Hunua Yao Dunyo, the high priest also President of the Ghana Psychic and Traditional Healers Association asked the followers to take stock of their faith and continue to abide by the rules and taboos of the shrine for protection and blessing. Hunua Dunyo asked them to love one another, take part in development projects initiated by the shrine and their various communities.