To say of the traditional African thinker that he is interested in supernatural rather than natural causes makes little more sense... than to say of the physicist that he is interested in nuclear rather than natural causes. In fact, both are making the same use of theory to transcend the limited vision of natural causes provided by common sense.

African Traditional Thought and Western Science, Africa, Volume 37, Number 1, 1967 (p. 57), Howes, Oscar 1830-90