“When you are in an environment like Lagos, you need a connection to something higher …”

Sabrina Dittus: Are you religious?

Adé Bantu: I am religious. Spirituality is very, very important to me. I think when you are in a very volatile environment like Lagos, you have to connect to something that is greater than you, to make…to bring in meaning. When you are in an environment like you are in that is very volatile as Lagos is, you need some spirituality, some connection to something higher than you to make meaning out of all the madness around you, so definitely, I am spiritual but I am not affiliated to organized religion. So I do not have anything to do with the church, or with Islam. I am more connected to my Yoruba religion which is indigenous religion … (excerpt)

Interview in Lagos on the occasion of my film Urban Prayers: The Reinvention of Religion in the City (2012)

Fuil interview in: Jochen Becker, Katrin Klingan, Stephan Lanz, Kathrin Wildner (eds.): Global Prayers. Contemporary Manifestations of the Religious in the City – metroZones 13