QUOTE : GRANDPARENTS<br /><br />For many peoples of black Africa, ancestors are the spirits that live in the tree beside your house or in the cow grazing in the field. The great-grandfather of your great-great-grandfather is now that stream snaking down the mountainside. Your ancestor could also be any spirit that decides to accompany you on your voyage through the world, even if he or she was never a relative or an acquaintance. <br /><br />The family has no borders, explains Soboufu Somé of the Dagara people: “Our children have many mothers and many fathers. As many as they wish.”<br /><br />And the ancestral spirits, the ones that help you make your way, are the many grandparents that each of you has. As many as you wish.