Long ago having embraced the culture and native faith of the ancient Yoruba people, Chief Nathaniel Styles has traveled to West Africa dozens of times over the decades. His latest trip will feature a ...

A centuries-old festival on the banks of the Osun River in Nigeria has seen prayers answered down the ages. Now it faces a modern challenge – pollution Photographs by Emebiriodo Ugochukwu Through the ...

This September marks the 138 years of the end of Kiriji War, the civil strife in Yorubaland that lasted for 16 years. The author of this report recalls collections from old and young people who still ...

An expert in expressions of the ancient Yoruba religion in the African diaspora offers a lecture at Bates at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, in the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St. The speaker is ...

From the story, the richness of the language, the dressing and the tribal marks all pontificate to the fact that the story is told by a person totally immersed in the Yoruba culture. The lead ...

In these two books, Yoruba Art And Language: Seeking The African In African Art written by Rowland Abiodun, formerly, Professor of Art at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and currently Professor of ...

Ancient Yoruba houses still stand in the hinterlands. Some of these visibly falling structures have become relics, representing a family's age-old history. Others have received a more modern makeover ...

First of all, there is no name like Moses, just like there is no name like Jesus. Both those names are made up names that the European translators of the Hebrew and Aramaic Scriptures transliterated ...

The compound ‘Yoruba philosophy’ stands for the comprehensive philosophical doctrine of Yoruba people, on issues of logic, ethics, epistemology, or metaphysics. Yoruba people settled in Ile-Ife ...

This September marks the 138 years of the end of Kiriji war, the civil strife in Yorubaland that lasted for 16 years. Adewale Adeoye in this report recalls collections from old and young people who ...