The two-week festival is considered to be the biggest annual traditional religious event of the Yoruba people ... remaining places that the spirits, or "Orishas" reveal themselves to bless ...
It has its roots in the Yoruba religion from Nigeria and was brought to Puerto Rico and the Caribbean during the slave trade. It borrows the gods or Orishas from that religion. However ...
The echoes of the separation of the Yoruba Nation from Nigeria, again, reverberated as the visible proponent of the call, Professor Adebanji Akintoye, for the umpteenth time requested the exit of ...
It is now almost a century and a half that the Yoruba civil war ended. No fewer than 400,000 soldiers participated in the war. Though often conceived as Ibadan-Ekiti Parapo war, in reality the war ...
PENGL, YANNICK I. ROESSLER, PHILIP and RUEDA, VALERIA 2022. Cash Crops, Print Technologies, and the Politicization of Ethnicity in Africa. American Political Science Review, Vol. 116, Issue. 1, p. 181 ...