Samuel Johnson (1846-1901), an Anglican minister and historian, wrote a seminal history of the Yoruba people. Although the publisher lost his manuscript, it was reconstructed from his notes by his ...

Samuel Johnson (1846-1901), an Anglican minister and historian, wrote a seminal history of the Yoruba people. Although the publisher lost his manuscript, it was reconstructed from his notes by his ...

My parents are from the Yoruba region of Nigeria and according to oral tradition my surname was originally 'Ifashola' which meant that we as a family were apparently 'Ifa Diviners', people who ...

‘Labe Odan’ (Under the Byran Tree) is a 102-page compilation of short Yoruba stories written in the Yoruba language. These tales are undoubtedly inspired by the experiences of an octogenarian ...

Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has berated British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for distorting Yoruba history. The monarch, reacting to BBC’s documentary in a statement yesterday ...

The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, has criticised BBC Yoruba for publishing what it described as a ...

As a historian and archaeologist, I was drawn to the Ọ̀ṣun festival and the deity’s most sacred site, the Ọ̀ṣun-Òṣogbo Grove, to understand the history of Òṣogbo and the Yorùbá ...

Heads of some Pan-Yoruba groups have shown resistance to the alleged introduction of Sharia in any part of its territories, warning that its introduction ...

As a historian and archaeologist, I was drawn to the Ọ̀ṣun festival and the deity's most sacred site, the Ọ̀ṣun-Òṣogbo Grove, to understand the history of Òṣogbo and the Yorùbá ...

SINGER-songwriter Adekunle Gold has joined the production team of ‘The Odyssey’, a documentary film, as co-producer. The documentary film is now in ...