Abstract

Any group of people or society that embraces religion has an experience or a concept of who they perceive to be the Center of the religion or who they consider to be the Supreme Being. The Akan of Ghana as an African people are religious and for that matter has an experience of the Supreme Being. This paper sought to share an Akan experience of God from the perspective of the Fante of Cape Coast (Oguaa). The synthetic and interpretative approaches were used in addition to collection of data from some elderly people, traditional priests and court historians from Oguaa. The indigenous people believe in the Supreme Being (God) as the Creator. They have three distinct names for God and these names show their understanding of who God is. These names are Onyame, Onyank?rp?n and ?domankoma. There are seventy-seven deities that are recognized and accepted in the Oguaa traditional area. These deities are believed to be children of God; the Supreme Being and He has assigned them to the people for protection and other assistance. Also, in spite of the recognition and acceptance of these deities, the indigenous religion of the people should not be classified as polytheistic. Their religion should be described as henotheistic.

Keywords

belief, deities, indigenous, supreme being, traditional