Sotho

South Africa • Language: Sesotho

The Sotho are a Bantu ethnic group. As part of their ancestral worship is a belief in the Supreme Being, who is referred to as Modimo. Other lesser deities are also worshipped, and ritualistic practices, like rainmaking dances, are part of the religion.
 
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Here is a collection of panAFRICAproject images by Lou Jones pertaining to the ethnographic group of "Sotho".