The Osun-Oshogbo Sacred Grove, located in the city of Oshogbo in southwestern Nigeria, holds significant cultural and religious meaning for the Yoruba people. Stretching along the banks of the Osun ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Saheem Ali’s musical, about the goddess of music finding refuge and love at an Afro-jazz club in Mombasa, Kenya, has been nearly 20 years in the making. “Goddess ...

Akintoye reiterated his long-standing support for the Yoruba nation’s self-determination movement, stating that Yorubaland must break free from the destructive patterns seen in the Nigerian ...

Chairman of the Yoruba Day 2025 Organizing Committee, Baale Amb. Oyeyemisola Fatuyi, FIIM, has voiced concerns about widespread misconceptions surrounding Yoruba roots and heritage. Speaking at ...

It’s another way of celebrating how Yoruba’s heritage is relevant in the modern world, with Rea highlighting Beyoncé’s allusions to the yellow-dress-wearing goddess of fertility and love ...

Professor Karin Barber is a foremost authority in Yoruba ... two Osun goddess stories which may guide those fighting her daughter. The first, Barber says, is from a devotee of Oya which stressed ...

Mixing light-hearted conversation with hard-hitting questions, online game show ‘Masoyinbo’ aims to preserve the language while educating and entertaining Yoruba speakers in Nigeria and beyond. The ...

Ghommids is an umbrella term for creatures in Yoruba folklore ... The ghommids were furious, and their leader and goddess of the river, Ọ̀ṣun, had had enough. She appeared to the settlers ...

He entitled the narrative, Dog Magic of Yoruba Hunters ... whenever Tańtólóhun saw a particular elderly priest of Oya goddess guest of the Beiers, she suddenly went abrasive.

From early on, she saw herself as a daughter of Oya, the Yoruba goddess of the winds of change. Gumbs writes that “Audre believed she had a cosmic assignment to embody the elemental force of cha ...