From Nigeria to Senegal and everywhere in between, West Africa is home to a rich culinary culture that transcends national ...

CFR, Olofin Adimula, the 51st Ooni of Ife, must now be reflecting on the past half-century of his eventful life. And as a ...

The orishas (also known as orixás) are nature gods and goddesses worshiped by followers of Candomblé, Umbanda, and various ...

Black folks know we can tell some scary stories:" How many of y'all still avoid doing the "Candyman" chant in the mirror?

In the city, I discovered how pre-colonial traditions, including my own Yoruba heritage, thrive and connect the Black ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — A march in honor of an Afro-Brazilian deity drew some 150,000 people in São Paulo on Aug. 18, shocking ...

Yoruba culture and history have always held a deep source of curiosity for me, and Pa Ladigbolu is a phenomenal figure who constitutes a triadic embodiment of the theological, the cultural and the ...

PENGL, YANNICK I. ROESSLER, PHILIP and RUEDA, VALERIA 2022. Cash Crops, Print Technologies, and the Politicization of Ethnicity in Africa. American Political Science ...