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Traditionally, the kola nut is also presented as a guest gift or a betrothal gift. In many parts of West Africa, it is considered sacred and is appropriate as a gift or offering at ancestral shrines.
There are numerous rules for its consumption, and particularly in Nigeria, there are complex religious rituals for sharing the kola nut. These rituals resembled the ceremony of the Last Supper so closely that missionaries early on attempted to merge the two to better spread the Christian faith.
The Igbo, a tribe living in Nigeria, hold the Cola acuminata as particularly sacred. They have a priest or the oldest male family member present divide it among those gathered. Additionally, they believe that messages from the ancestors about the future can be read in the arrangement and number of the nuts.