In fact, by the time the trade with Europe started, the Yoruba language had become the lingua franca for peoples beyond the Oòduà (Yorùbá) ethnic homeland. Writing about the Aja kingdom of Allada in 1668, Dapper said: “Their own mother ...

Eko (Lagos) is not a no man’s land. Insert is Ahmodu Tijani above, a direct descendant of the founder of Lagos and Oluwo of Eko (Lagos) in the 1920s. He took the British to court in the early 1900s to ...

In whatever we say, in everything we say, be mindful,be honest, be truthful, and be conscious in order not to harm ourselves or our loved ones with our utterances. We should not be our own worst enemy!In Irosun Ega (Irosun ...

Ẹlẹ́jẹ̀lú, Olúlànà, Ọbasìn, Láarúmọ̀, Ajọ́ńgọ́lọ̀, Ọba Ọ̀dàrà, Onílé Oríta, Ẹlẹ́gbára Ọ̀gọ, Olóògùn Àjíṣà, Láàlú Ògiri Òkò, Láàlù Bara Ẹlẹ́jọ́, Láaróyè Ẹbọra tí jẹ́ Látọpa..etc

“Prof, I have an update for you,” her voice said with urgency. It’s my “friend,” the one who doesn’t know whether or not to disclose to her daughter in Canada that the man she had always called father is not ...

“I remember so very clearly when hooligans came to burn down your mother’s shop,” Aduke said. “It’s one of the most vivid memories that I carry from my childhood. I had seen you in school that same day, I think. ...

Fear gradually gripped me, as I sat there in the hot shop with my father, my mother, and other relatives, waiting for a crowd of assorted characters gathered in front of the shop to set us ablaze. I was not ...

The meaning of the 16 Odu Ifa of the Ifa is based on 16 symbolic or allegorical parables contained in the 16 Core Chapters or Principles that form the basis of the Ifá, a system of divination of the Yoruba ...

Ifá não nos proporciona uma mudança provisória, e sim a mudança de um destino absoluto através de ações que possa somar ao bem estar da família, da sociedade e de uma renovação interna através de um bom carácter. Podemos mudar ...

Òpá òsùn is a deity, when ifa initiation wants to be performed, the Babaláwo must obtain it to perform the procedures of ifa, òpá òsùn is to call all the deities for what is being processed. Òpá òsùn is very ...