African Healing Shrines & Migration

African healing shrines are intimately related to African traditional religion as important sacred places for the provision of healing or for prayers for a specific cause. At many of them illness - both physical and mental health problems are taken care of. There is a complex and changing relations between religion and migration. Religion not only inspires, manages and benefits from migration, but the experience of migration affects religious beliefs and practices. This paper provides an analysis of the connection between African healing shrines and migration. The paper argues that because African religion and healing are closely related, there will be migration associated with healing wherever people of Africa or African descent dwell. The paper argues that both external and internal migrations play vital roles in the recreation of healing shrines in their new destinations or the visits to the shrines usually located where their religion originated from. The consideration of the relationship between migration and location of African healing shrines is a major contribution to the growing body of work on the African Healing Shrines. Both internal migration and international migrations are widespread in Nigeria and other African countries. However, their link with the African Healing Shrines has had little attention. In this work, we argue that migration whether forced or voluntary has contributed to the recreation of healing shrines.