section_path: Virtue and vice
section_name: Virtue and vice
paragraph_text: Virtue and vice
  
  Virtue in traditional African religion is often connected with carrying out communal obligations. Examples include social behaviors such as the respect for parents and elders, raising children appropriately, providing hospitality, and being honest, trustworthy, and courageous.
  
  In some traditional African religions, morality is associated with obedience or disobedience to God regarding the way a person or a community lives. For the Kikuyu, according to their primary supreme creator, Ngai, acting through the lesser deities is believed to speak to and be capable of guiding the virtuous person as one's conscience.
  
  In many cases, Africans who have converted to other religions have still kept up their traditional customs and practices, combining them in a syncretic way.