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A General Overview of the Yoruba Culture

A General Overview of the Yoruba Culture

Yorubas are considered to be rich in terms of culture and tradition. The name Yoruba was applied to all linguistically and culturally related peoples. The Yoruba People, of whom there are more than thirty-five million according to CIA World Factbook of 2012, occupy...
50 Things to Know About Egúngún

50 Things to Know About Egúngún

Despite being deceased, it is believed that our ancestors are part and parcel to the larger family. They are regarded as the collective spirits of the ancestors who occupy a space in heaven. It is pertinent for Ifa/Orisa practitioners both at home and in the diaspora...
43 Untold Facts about Late Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola (SLA)

43 Untold Facts about Late Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola (SLA)

History is written only by the survivors, not by the dead, and Just like Chinua Achebe said; “until lions have their own historians, history of the hunting written by the children of hunters will always glorify the hunters” If Samuel Ladoke Akintola (SLA) was given...
Oyotunji: A Yoruba Kingdom in the United States of America (USA)

Oyotunji: A Yoruba Kingdom in the United States of America (USA)

 Oyotunji African Village is a village located near Sheldon, Beaufort County, South Carolina that was founded by Oba Efuntola Oseijeman Adelabu Adefunmi I in 1970. Oyotunji village is named after the Oyo empire, a pre-colonial Yoruba kingdom lasting from the 1300s...
Prophet Daniel Abodunrin and the University of Ibadan Lion’s Zoo

Prophet Daniel Abodunrin and the University of Ibadan Lion’s Zoo

Prophet Daniel Abodunrin is remembered by most Nigerians to date for his miracle mission that later became his doom. Determined to recreate a biblical occurrence, he wanted to prove that he is the modern-day Daniel and that what happened around 620 B.C. could repeat...

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