History · Editor's pick
Why 1804 still frightens the archives
How the founding of Haiti reorganised what European powers were willing to write about African religion.
9 min read
Magazine
The Roots Journal
Caribbean
Obeah is not one thing
From Jamaica to Trinidad to Guyana, a single colonial word covered practices that never matched each other.
7 min read
Women & Ancestral Knowledge
The manbo, the midwife and the market
Women as holders of ritual, medical and economic knowledge across the Caribbean.
11 min read
Plants & Nature
Reading a garden as an archive
Plants that crossed the Atlantic, and what their names still record.
8 min read
Africa
There is no 'African religion'
Yoruba, Akan, Fon, Igbo and Kongo systems differ as much from each other as European religions do.
10 min read
Diaspora
Ceremony in a third-floor apartment
How migration reshapes ritual space without emptying it of meaning.
6 min read
Books
Five books to start with, and one to read carefully
A short annotated reading list, including a classic that requires caution.
5 min read
Interviews
'We are not a costume'
Practitioners on appropriation, tourism and what respectful curiosity looks like.
12 min read