AFRICAN CREATION MYTHS.

Many African Creation Myths strongly feature the idea of infusing God's power energy into the human being and also focus on the theme of destiny and fate of man. They also explore the challenges of chaos and the benefits of establishing order. They also initiate the processes of human birth and death by giving cosmic reasons for life and mortality.
The Crossroads is a major concept. It is an idea that suggests there is a point where good and evil, humanity and divinity, the living and the dead, the night and the day, and all other contradictions, opposites, and situations involving decisions must meet.
At this point, there exists an intermediary to open the way, to provide humans with choice, and to teach wisdom at the gate.
In Eastern and Southern Africa, there are a variety of creation legends. The Kamba in Eastern Kenya and Northern Tanzania (into South Western Kenya) believe that the Supreme God, Ngai, created man and that man's ancestors communicate with God.
In East South Africa, among the Zulu, the great God, Unkulunkulu, rises from a primordial marshland to go on and create the Earth. The Southern African creation stories consistently feature the work of the Supreme Being.
The Lozi in Zambia are witness to the creation of Kamura (the first human beings) by Nyambe. He created everything, including man, his own wife, and mother.
In Malawi, God Chuita created the Earth and became aligned with rain and fertility among the Tumbuka people.
In the Congo region, Efile Mokulu, God among the Baluba, not only created the World and mankind -but gave human beings their heart energy and balanced all the forces of Nature.
The Bambuti (BaMbuti) god, Khonvoum, created the World and then made man from the Earth. Further, Bumba, god of the Bushongo, also created the Heavens, plants, animals, and human beings.
In North East Africa and the Sudan, God is consistently self-existing. Among the Dinka in South Eastern Sudan and South Western Ethiopia, the Supreme being Nhialic was present at the moment of Creation. Associated with sky and rain, Nhialic also controls the fate of all living things.
The ancient Egyptians of North Eastern Africa have one of the oldest sets of creation narratives in the World. One of the most persistent involves the preexisting primordial waters (the chaos of pre-creation) in which Ra-Atum rose and created Shu and telfnut (Air and Moisture). They created Nut and Geb (Sky and Earth), who produced the God pantheon: Osiris, Isis, Seth, Nepthys, and Horus-the-Elder.
The creation of the Earth out of chaos sets the stage for the drama of good and evil, birth and resurrection among the ancient Egyptians.
In West Africa, particularly in Ghana, the Supreme Being is omnipresent and omniscient.
Among the Akan, Brekyerchunuade is the high God who knows everything within the affairs of mankind.
In the Ashanti tradition, Nyame, the Supreme Being is married to Goddess Asase Yaa (an Earth goddess). They give birth to the divine children, Bia and Tano. Tano is the father of the divinities within this pantheon.
The Fon of Benin recognize Mawu/Lisa, the God who created the World and brought order and balance to it. Mawu/Lisa created plants, animals, and humans, and gives humans everything to be successful in the World.
In Nigeria and Cameroon, the creator, Abassi, and his goddess wife, Atai, created two human children who were the first people on the Earth.
The Igbo (Ibo) of South Eastern Nigeria believe that the Great Spirit Chukwu created everything that exists.
The Dogon of Mali and Burkino Faso believe that the creator God Amma fashioned the Earth out of clay and populated it with the four ancestral pairs: Arou, Dyon, Ono, and Domnu.
In the Yoruba tradition, the Supreme Being, Olorun Oludumare, tasked Oduduwa to create the Earth and take sacred clay and create human beings. In one version of the narrative, Oduduwa accidentally creates the earth on top of the primordial waters at Ile Ife, and Obatala goes on to bring humans into being. Important symbol implements of this creation include the metal with which a rooster scratched and expanded the land and the palm seed that provided the plant matter.
African Creation Myths seek to describe divine justice and the rules that human beings should follow.
In the sense that the crossroads is the place where several paths cross, where several roads intersect, it is really a symbolic concept. As such, the idea is that, at the point of decision, the human has the possibility of touching divinity or forever remained locked in mortality.