Culture

‘We must endeavor to study Ifa and start quoting Ifa instead of quoting Shakespeare’ – Omo Oba

Telling our stories begins from looking into the doings of our forebears and excavating the knowledge database resulting from the cultural practices of our ancestors. For so long, we have heard about who we really are from a people who ...

Ooni of Ife, Oba Ogunwusi Adeyeye Enitan has said that Ife sons and daughters are not worshipping idols, by celebrating Olojo festival yearly. He said there is one God, adding that people irrespective of their religions call upon him in ...

Olu Igbo is just a revisionist. An attention seeker. He must know that divide and conquer tactics are are no longer fashionable. He should refrain from his unsubstantiated rhetorics. Ife ni orisun awa eda—Ife is the cradle of humanity Knowledge ...

Ifá – A Computer Programmer’s perspective… For some of us who earn our daily bread from programming computers, making the connection between Ifá binary notation and programming is a no brainer. We programmers write codes/instructions (incantations) on the cpu – ...

Installation of Oloye Babalorisa Rudolph Eastman from Trinidad and Tobago as “Aare Agbefaga of Oworonsoki Kingdom” at the Palace of Araba of Oworonsoki Kingdom, Lagos on 4th September 2018 with Yeye Araba Banke Agboola, Oloye Dada Ifatoba, Erinmi of Oworonsoki ...

Beauty may maintain the attention of the beholder but you will find generally acclaimed standards of beauty. Those who fall in this category look very appealing to everyone. It’s thought that they were created on a monday (Aje). The Yoruba ...

Sometimes your gentility is taken for stupidity but you should ignore them as revealed in the Odu, “Owonrin Meji”, cast for Ose Ifa today. O gba mi leti mi o gba o san O se mi ni’gbo mi o fo’hun ...

If you name is a Yoruba name It is an Orisa name It does not have to include ogun, Sango, Ifa or any other Orisa name to be an Orisa name. Titilope, Moyosore, Adebayo, Wuraola,Abayomi, Babatope, Damilola, Folasade,Gbolahan, Ilesanmi, Ibitokun, ...

People often ask me if there is a “complete” written copy of the Odu Ifa. However, within the Odu Ifa it explains that there is no babalawo who knows all of the Odu Ifa because the pages in the Odu ...