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 ...
According to Abimbola, ‘writing is an enemy of remembrance’. “What do you mean, sir?” I asked. “The 256 Ifa corpus can be sectionalised into 800 large volumes.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says he respects Ifa the Yoruba divination system because Orunmila (the god of divination) had been in Yorubaland before the advent of Christianity and Islam.
Inspired by merindinlogun, a Yoruba divination ritual, Oluseye presents a new installation that illustrates the spiritual, mythological, and biographical elements that have shaped his worldview ...