Africans like to sing and to develop songs for all occasions: religious songs, work songs, and songs for leisure.
African singing is also marked by the frequent use of a leader and a chorus response technique.

African dance, like its music, builds on highly complex rhythmic patterns.

It too is closely related to all parts of the African's daily life.

There are dances for social and for ritual occasions.

The most common use of the dance was as an integral part of African religious rites.
African religion has usually been defined as fetish worship-the belief that specific inanimate objects are inhabited by spirits endowed with magical powers.