Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has described the Ifa traditional belief system as an integral part of Yoruba culture.Speaking during a reception in honour of renowned female ...

Deitism has no link with Yoruba culture and kingship. Yorubas are a special creature. We communicate directly to Olodumare and not through any intermediary,” he stated.

In actual fact, there’s an oracle of Orunmila, known as Odu Ifa Irete meji, which totally makes it very clear that human sacrifice is not a way of Yoruba, and if we look at those we call Orisa ...

International Council for Ifa Religion, on Tuesday, urged the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade to use all available means to protect the sanctity of Yoruba’s cultural and traditional values, so ...

The International Council for Ifa Religion, on Sunday, called for caution against false statements made on social media regarding slavery in old Yoruba history. ICIR, in a statement by its ...

The Ifa divination system, which makes use of an extensive corpus of texts and mathematical formulas, is practised among Yoruba communities and by the African diaspora in the Americas and the ...

In the suburbs of Seattle, an ancient West-African religion is gaining followers. Yoruba, from the Yoruba people of Nigeria, has been spreading across the U.S. for the last 50 years.

On a recent Sunday afternoon, Philip John Neimark-a babalawo in the Ifa religion of western Nigeria-conducted a reading for an aspiring priest. Neimark and the aspirant sat facing each other across… ...

He said the term Yoruba has no place in the race lexicon, adding that even Ifa does not make any reference to the race as Yoruba. Ajala added that none of the 256 ifa odus ever mentioned the word ...

A new publication, Sacred Art of Odu Ifa detailing West Africa’s Yoruba People Binary and Visual Writing Language is set to launch April 13, 2024 at the Kongi’s Harvest Art Gallery, Freedom ...

International Council for Ifa Religion, on Tuesday, urged the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade to use all available means to protect the sanctity of Yoruba's cultural and traditional values, so as ...