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ABSTRACT

Africa as a continent has suffered greatly from all angles or sectors of their lives, this is noticed with the coming or introduction of new cultures from other continents which parade themselves as superior continents with superior cultures. This is seen in the changes and abandonment by Africans in their moral, social, economic, cultural and even spiritual or religious life, all in attempt to catch up with the superior continents or adapt to their way of lives. This created big problems and confusions among the African people in being original or themselves while living out their daily normal lives. With the above problem or confusion especially from the religious point of view, Africans found it very hard to ascertain if the name of the Ultimate Reality found in their culture or religion is originally from them or an influence of cultural or religious contact from their colonizers. This is the thrust of this paper, to investigate whether the name of the Ultimate Reality is original to Africans in their different religious worships or a borrowed name from other religious contacts. This write-up employed the investigative research into the opinions of past and present authors concerning the above issue which has been a burning and dividing issue within the African Traditional Religion.