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Venezuelan practitioners of the Yoruba Ifa tradition of Santeria are giving offerings to Oshun. Ifa is spreading. Originally practiced in Nigeria and other parts of West Africa, Ifa can now be found as far as Japan.

Europeans long portrayed Africans as lacking culture. And yet they couldn’t resist stealing our cultural treasures in their thousands and putting them in museums around the world – if private collectors didn’t snap them up for a small fortune first. ...

DOWNLOAD VIDEOWho says the Yoruba race doesn’t have soup? I am using this medium to challenge my fellow Ibo, Hausa, Fulani, Efic, and Niger delta brothers and sisters to do the same kind of video above. I can assure you ...

The Akan woman from Ghana who ended up as freedom fighter and heroine in jamaica The Queen Nanny of the Maroons. She was a former slave stolen the akan people of Ghana brought to Jamaica during the late 1700s. Maroons ...

By Isa Isawade Prof. Wande Abimbola, born Ògúnwán̄dé Abím̄bọ́lá, a professor of Yoruba language and literature, and a former vice-chancellor of the University of Ife (formerly Obafemi Awolowo University), has revealed the process through which the Alaafin-elect, Prince Abimbola Owoade ...

What is Ifa Tuntun? When did Ifa Tuntun begin? Who is culpable for initiating it? Ifa Tuntun started the moment we Africans were packed into the hulls of the merchant ships and hauled across the sea. Everything changed from that ...

Congratulations to all faithful of Esu deity and all Yoruba sons and daughters on the occasion of the Esu Day Celebration, which is tagged “Esu is not Satan. I must confess, like millions of Yoruba, that I didn’t know for ...