Ifa is a divination based on 16 basic and 240 derivative figures (Odu) obtained either by the manipulation of 16 palm nuts or by the toss of a chain (Opele) of eight half seed shells.

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 ...

Although Ifa divination is a system of religious practice, the iconography of its sculpture is varied. This cup, for example, is supported on three curved mudfish. The mudfish is highly symbolic, ...

Yoruba artist Label Text Among the Yoruba individuals or groups seek solutions to serious problems through ifa divination. During the process, the diviner manipulates palm nuts, and records the ...

By Etop Ekanem In a groundbreaking study published in the Current Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Nigerian art historian and cultural scholar, Akinsoji Oni, has shed new light on ...

Candidates were usually raised for the ruling. Kingmakers through Ifa divination, selects the candidate from the competing royal ruling houses. But in today’s Yoruba Nation, the opposite is true.

The Yoruba Nigerian then said the story Adeboye told was found in the traditional religion of Ifa (oracular divination), so he wondered how much knowledge Adeboye had of Ifa.

But as Peter has found, it is not always easy to convert: Ifà, or esese, involves effigies, divination, and making offerings to a range of deities, up to and including animal sacrifice.