While that may be vastly true for many Africans, a negative aspect of that collective "tradition-emphasized" culture in a place like Sub-Saharan Africa is that when it's possessed by non-Christians, rather than having people who very strictly adhere to the tradition of scripture (like a lot of Ugandans or Ethiopians, who are very devout, traditional Christian people, for example), you can instead end up with non-Christian people conserving cultural traditions that shouldn't be conserved while simultaneously rejecting foreign Christian missions, which then leads to a primitive culture that lacks any morality that they would otherwise possess with Christian teaching. Most of this bias that goes against the spread of Christian values in Africa in favor of animistic beliefs probably stems from a hostility to Christianity because of its association in the minds of people like African animists with the legacy of European colonialism in their country, so these remaining African non-Christians who are holding onto their barbaric primal religions see it as an invading force that's intruding on their traditional culture, rather than anything positive. For example:
>Yes, we strive to preserve and adhere to our traditional, non-Western culture, so we reject the Christianity that Europe tried to send down to us.
>What are our traditions? *cough* Sorry, I had some bone marrow stuck in my throat. I've been chewing on this human arm I chopped off of a corpse a few days ago. Tasty stuff, y'know. Hmm, anyway, what are our traditions...
>Oh, sorry, I have to go, it sounds like my seventh wife is crying. She's been a real bitch recently. No matter how hard I hit her, she's the only wife I have who won't give me permission to send our six-year-old son out to go suicide bomb the rival clan. Well, I'll see you later.