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Jukun society was organised as a theocracy headed by the divine Aku Uka, who served as head of religion and state. At both the microcosm of the ando and the macrocosm of the tswen, belief in the Aku and ancestors delineated religious identity in the present and in the afterlife, khindo. Wa, which loosely translates as veneration, regulated the relationship between elder and younger generations, the people and the Aku Uka, the living and the ancestors. With the Aku Uka as both the head of religion and the living link with the ancestors, identification with an external system such as Christianity was problematic. This was the most singular factor impeding the acceptance of Christianity by the Jukun.
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Elawa, N.I. (2020). Conclusion. In: Understanding Religious Change in Africa and Europe: Crossing Latitudes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42180-9_9
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