The International Council for Ifa Religion (ICIR) has said the Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi needs to relearn Yoruba history to avail himself and his chiefs real story behind evolvement of ...

History in Africa, Vol. 44 (2017), pp. 63-100 (38 pages) This study juxtaposes the observations and interpretations of a twentyfirst- century ethnographer with those of nineteenth-century Christian ...

My father, a prominent Christian leader, once visited the Oyo Museum, where artefacts and relics of the old Oyo Empire—such as the Opon Ifa, masquerade masks, and Sango outfits—were displayed. He ...

On December 24, Yoruba traditional religion adherents took to the streets in Lagos, Osogbo, Nigeria and other cities across the world to protest against a historical ...

What happened to all their previous claims? Before now, Igbos claimed that their ancestral origin was Nri where their mythical ancestral father, Eri, descended from with a chain many a millennia ago.

In the precolonial and colonial periods, Shango priesthood with its possession cult symbolized by mounting -- husbands mounting wives, gods mounting possession priests, riders mounting horses -- was ...