I’ve been an ‘Afro-centric,’ devout Christian since my early adolescence. African cultural traditions have always fascinated me. While studying anthropology as an undergraduate, I learned about Orisha ...

"Patakin" are oracular narratives recited by diviners of the religion of Ifa and Orisha across the Yoruba Diaspora. Yoruba captives took Ifa and Orisha to Cuba in the nineteenth century. AFA copy ...

It is not new knowledge that the Yoruba people and culture are spread across Africa and, owing to slave trade, parts of Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil, and Trinidad and Tobago. In Brazilian cities such ...

Millions of Africans were transported across the Atlantic as slaves Feast, an ambitious and visually striking play that celebrates West Africa's Yoruba culture and its impact in the Americas and ...

Appraisal: Yoruba Orisha Oko Shaft & Beaded Sheath, from Chicago, Hour 2. Check out John A. Buxton's appraisal of a Yoruba Orisha Oka shaft & beaded sheath in Chicago, Hour 2.

Feast, an ambitious and visually striking play that celebrates West Africa's Yoruba culture and its impact in the Americas and Europe, is showing at the Young Vic theatre in London. The piece, a ...