IFA, otherwise known as Orunmila is the Yoruba god of wisdom (Divination). He is one of the principal deities of the Yoruba people and it is believed to be one of the great ministers Olodumare (the ...

Art matters in our lives. In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. The opon ifa, or ...

Extracted from: Dialogue and alliance (New York) 3 (2) summer 1989, pages 24-29. Yoruba divination, known as Ifa, utilizes a wide range of artifacts from unadorned natural objects, such as the palm ...

The next Ooni of Ife will, no doubt, emerge according to the dictates of the Ifa oracle. In Yorubaland, divination gives priests unreserved access to the teachings of Orunmila. Though, the respective ...

Saturday — In Yoruba land, Ifa divinity occupies a central part of the people's existence. Even after the arrival of the missionaries in Nigeria's landscape in the 17th century and the consequent ...

Priests of the Afro-Cuban Ifá-Oracle are increasingly using smartphones in their divination sessions. One particular application allows the meanings and recommendations of all the 256 existing oracle ...

Ifa concept of cosmology as basis for divination -- The use of ancestor reverance in divination -- Divination with four cowries -- Transposing four coweries into Odu -- Obi Abata -- Merindinlogun -- ...

Oba Solomon Ilesanmi Ajibade is the Owa Odo Ayedun in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State. In this interview with Yaqoub Popoola the monarch revealed how he used the Holy Bible to defeat Ifa ...

For many decades, the western world denounced the African culture and religious practices as not only anti-social but barbaric. That was the basis upon which missionaries invaded the continent from ...

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, on Wednesday said that whenever people use the search engine Google to source information, they’re consulting Ifa –a divination oracle. The revered monarch added ...