Ghommids is an umbrella term for creatures in Yoruba folklore ... for community renewal. The festival has also become a time for many members of the Yorùbá religion worldwide to come together ...

But traditional African religion ... among the Yoruba ethnic group. Many tens of thousands of Yoruba gathered in the southwestern city of Oshogbo for the annual Osun festival this week, to offer ...

The festival of Osun-Osgobo ... This ceremony is part of a rich indigenous Yoruba religious tradition that began in West Africa and has become one of the ten largest religions in the world ...

The Ojude Oba Festival is one of Nigeria’s culturally significant indigenous celebrations, deeply rooted in the traditions of the Ijebu people.It is held annually in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, and takes ...

At that festival, he and his quintet unveiled an ambitious new work, “Misa Negra,” which married the percussion and musical idiom of traditional Yoruba religious masses with jazz. Back then ...

In August 2002, Nigerian National Television broadcasted live coverage of the second Black Heritage Festival ... to Yoruba drumming, and attending lectures on the Yoruba orisa religion appeared ...

08/19/2019 August 19, 2019 In south-western Nigeria, the town of Osogbo is celebrating the festival of Osun. The festivity honors the goddesses of the traditional Yoruba religion, which existed in ...