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Parallels between Christianity and Africaâs Diola religion ... Essential Diola ritual practices ... How economics caused the French Imperial powers to suppress the Diola tradition ... The land as a "living being" ... Aliouâs path to Christianity via Diola and Sufi traditions ... Reading Paulâs Epistle to the Galatians from a Diola perspective ...

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