What Father Damuah seems to be saying is that only if African Christians are prepared to participate in the religious traditions of their culture can the Christian faith ever cease to be foreign and become rooted in the African soil. Since religion is that aspect of culture that enables us to express our experience of transcendence, it is as basic to life as culture itself. The idea of rooting the Christian religion in the culture of the people is supported by many churchmen. For instance a moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana thought it fit to call on the church to mobilise the Ghanaian traditional culture to be blended into Christian worship. The reason why chiefs or kings and other natural leaders cannot be full members of the church is their participation in the traditional ritual practices, especially the pouring of libation.
Libation is one of the oldest and perhaps least understood religious rituals.
It is the sacrificial pouring out of liquid. As a religious ritual, libation can be traced as far back as the Bronze Age by means of libation pitchers and bowls discovered in excavations or depicted in stone reliefs and vase paintings or on gems, seals and rings. In Babylonian and Assyrian religions, it was primarily the king's office to offer libation to the gods. It was part of the meals presented to the gods on altar tables, around which the divinities gathered eagerly. It was common in the Greco-Egyptian period and in Israelite religion, libation was central to the cult.