TENGAN Alexis B. is an Independent Scholar in social and cultural anthropology and a teacher of Religious Sciences. For many years he was an academic associate at the Catholic University of Louvain, where he monitors a seminar within a Master's program on cultures and development. He studied at the University of Ghana (Accra), at Lumen Vitae Pastoral Institute (Brussels) and at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium where he earned his PhD is Social and Cultural Anthropology.