Article: The Confusion Between Culture and Spirituality

Where Culture Ends and Spirit Begins: Rethinking African Spirituality

This writing is a slow return to truth, a reminder that spirit was never meant to be trapped in rules or rituals. In it, Dr. Princess Ivie Loveth J.E. (Iyanifa) walks through the many ways we confuse culture with divinity and forget the freedom that lives within us.

Each part moves like a conversation with the ancestors: honest, questioning, and deeply healing. It speaks to those who feel the old call rising in their chest but cannot yet name it.

This is not a lesson. It is a remembering, a path back to the quiet knowing that spirit is not something we serve, but something we are.