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Isese

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, philosophies, ethics, arts, festivals, rites of passage, medicine, and ways of relating to the divine. These are all aspects of Isese.Not every Yoruba person practices traditional “worship” today, but every Yoruba person is connected to Isese through ancestry, culture, language, ...

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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 make them the same. I am a saint. Would you pray to me for your roads to be opened? Of course you wouldn’t, why would you give offerings and pray to other people? This is a colonist trap in which ...

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Before Okada: When Taxis Built Dreams and Communities in Yorubaland

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 vehicles had become the dominant taxis throughout Yorubaland.Taxi drivers and vehicle owners lived among us as neighbors and family members. The system was simple and effective.Drivers acquired vehicles through hire-purchase agreements, making regular payments until they gained full ownership.Once a ...

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Despots of the Dark Continent: Gaddafi, Abacha, Amin and the Western Propaganda Machine

“He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.” U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). This is the single unbroken rule of Western engagement with African leadership. This principle applies as much to African heads of state as it does to the powers that back them. Steal for the West, and you become an “astute politician.” Steal from them, or worse, steal for your country, and you become a monster in need of removal. ...

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