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ABSTRACT

African Religion is Africa's indigenous religion handed to them thousands of years by their forebears. Sound in African religious worldview permeates every aspect of human existence in both cosmic and non physical worlds. Ultimate Being is responsible for creating the universe which has in-depth religious significance in the African worldview, that manifest itself in various facets of men' interaction with physical beings and non physical beings both worlds as created by the Ultimate Being. The paper is aimed at unveiling the religious significance of sound in African religious worldview:A contemporary Reflection of the Ultimate Being, which pervades all spheres of men’s existence as it involves inter-play of forces between the physical and spiritual worlds. The paper adopted prescriptive, descriptive and analytic methods of research. Data were collected from the field by experiences and consultation of books. The paper discovered that, Ultimate Being sustained the vibration which creates a corresponding pattern as it reflects the mood and behaviour of people that present the wisdom of the cosmos as reflected in the body’s musical composition and the natural expression of sounds in the cosmos. Thus, there are different forms of sound, the human voice, sound of nature, and the waves of energy which impress on people and speak volumes to their religious wellbeing, with emotive and creative impact. People should learn to manipulate potent psychic forces for religious affiliation with the visible and invisible beings. Also, Ultimate Being should be seen as a mystery which integrates the living and the departed, and should be differentiated from other uninspired human sounds. People should try not to make themselves isolated from religious sound because becausr; Ultimate Being as defected in sound is the live wire of transmission of ideas and reflective purpose of human to divine relationship in the two worlds. Furthermore, inspired sound should be sift from uninspired or from the unreflective one. The human existence cannot do without genuine and inspired sound because, Ultimate Being is the prime force responsible for relating and bringing reflective purpose between the sacred and profane in the African worldview that consist of interactions with physical and non physical worlds of the living and the departed which calls for further reflection in our world polluted by secular and un-inspired sound.