“Virtually everything they havve learned about an Orisa house (or temple) comes from Nollywood films and their Christian and Muslim clerics. How does Nollywood present Orisa houses? In the worst possible forms, to scare people, to malign and demonize the practices, to distort the ceremonies as awfully as possible–all out of their colonized and broken minds, as means of money making.How do Christians and Islamic clerics present Orisa practices? — Moyo Okediji
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Did you know that AYA, not IYAWO, is the Yoruba language’s original word for wife? These days, the latter is utilized more frequently than the former. I’ll explain how Iyawo came to be. Wura, the first child and daughter of the King of Iwo (a town in Yoruba), was in the process of picking a bride and had to decide which one would be best for her.Like Sango, Ogun, and other well-known male Orisa, Yoruba Orisa traveled to Iwo to ...
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