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Photos: Osun Osogbo Festival 2026
Osun-Osogbo Festival 2026: A celebration of culture, faith, and heritage The Osun-Osogbo Festival 2026 is one of Nigeria’s most beautiful cultural celebrations and a powerful reminder of the enduring heritage of the Yoruba people. Held annually in Osogbo, Osun State, ...
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Osun: Òrìsà Olómo (The Mother of Children)
Osun: Motherly Love Yesterday was the peak of the Osun Osogbo festival, and it felt overwhelming. The exciting bubbles were there as well. This may not be far from the fact that Arugba OSUNBUNMI, who couldn’t carry the sacred calabash ...
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Ex-Ottoman Empire: Turkey suffers a hat trick of humiliation today.
1. Strait of Hormuz: Turkish oil tanker damaged A Turkish-operated oil tanker was damaged after striking what Iranian media described as a sea mine in the Strait of Hormuz. Reports indicate the vessel deviated from the transit route designated by ...
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Olodo Uprising | Digmatized Revolutionary, | Akara And Kuli Kuli – Seun Kuti
Ẹ Káàbọ̀! (Step Into the Beautiful World of Yoruba Words That English Cannot Fully Translate)
TODAY’S LANGUAGE LESSONYoruba words and expressions that don’t have a perfect one-word English equivalentEnglish needs an entire sentence to explain these Yoruba words.You think you can interpret all Yoruba words to English directly with just one word? Okay.Tell me the ...
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The Day a Woman Ended the Reign of Terror: Moremi and the Bandits of Ile-Ife
MOREMI AND BANDITRYHistory teaches us that the banditry the Yoruba people are experiencing today is not new.Long ago, the people of Ile-Ife lived under constant attack from a group of raiders known as the Ugbo.To be clear, the Ugbo were ...
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What is Isese?
Some say Isese is a religion.Some say Isese is a spirituality.I say Isese is the collective culture, traditions, worldview, and ancestral heritage of the Yoruba people.Before Christianity and Islam arrived in Yorubaland, our ancestors already had names, languages, governance systems, ...
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PBI: Orisa/Orisha aren’t SAINTS.
They aren’t synchronized with anyone. Sango is NOT a mute white woman, trapped inside a castle. Eshu is not a cute holy child that you give candy to. Because these saints may have displayed traits of the Orisha does NOT ...
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Before Okada: When Taxis Built Dreams and Communities in Yorubaland
Growing up in Ile-Ife during the late 1950s and 1960s, our taxi was a Morris Minor. The same was true in most towns and cities across Southwestern Nigeria. Motorcycles were not used as taxis.By the 1970s, Datsun, Toyota, and Peugeot ...
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