The Search for Peace in Times of Chaos—Volume of the descendant by the name of his ancestor makes it possible for the ancestor to continue to live in his descendant The belief is widespread that the ancestor will continue to survive as “an ancestor,” only on condition that he is not forgotten, i.e if his descendants will communicate regularly with him through prayer and ritual offering Hence, the African desires to have many children who will remember him and ritually communicate with him An ancestor, on his part, is believed to procure benefits for his living kin such as health, long life and the begetting of children, similar to some of the other faith practices in this study 24 Thanks to his death, an ancestor is believed to enjoy a sacred superhuman status with special magico-religious powers that can be beneficial or harmful to his earthly kin Thus both bodily and spiritual qualities are ascribed to the ancestors, invisibility or visibility in human form, capacity to enter into and possess human individuals or brute animals, capacity to consume food or drinks, special nearness to the Supreme Being, capacity to exist anywhere although the ancestors are believed to have localities of preference (i.e., shrines, particular trees or bushes, graveyards, etc) At times, the ancestral spirits can be benevolent to their earthly kin, but they can also intervene at will to harm them That is why they are also feared When they are forgotten or neglected by their descendants, they are said to manifest their anger by sending to their descendants bodily or spiritual calamities Their anger is usually appeased through prayer and ritual offerings.25 Women in African Proverbs: Women are extremely valuable in the sight of society Not only they bear life, but they nurse, they cherish, and they give warmth A woman must not be killed She is the mother of life, and to kill the woman is to kill children, to kill humanity itself The woman should be handled with respect and not be treated as if she were a slave Irreverence and Unkindness to Parents: According to traditional religion, parents after giving their children good training, nursing them to maturity and settling them down properly in life, expect the children