Priests of the Afro-Cuban Ifá-Oracle are increasingly using smartphones in their divination sessions. One particular application allows the meanings and recommendations of all the 256 existing oracle ...

Extracted from: Dialogue and alliance (New York) 3 (2) summer 1989, pages 24-29. Yoruba divination, known as Ifa, utilizes a wide range of artifacts from unadorned natural objects, such as the palm ...

The crisis that has engulfed the traditional institution in Yorubaland lately because governors insist on choosing traditional rulers instead of kingmakers whose responsibility it is to do so with the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Yoruba sculptors carved several of ...

Members of the Ladigbolu Royal Family in ancient Oyo town have urged kingmakers to allow the oracle to select who becomes the Alaafin of Oyo, among those jostling for the seat. The family said there ...

Araba, the Chief Priest of Osogbo Land, Araba Ifayemi Elebuibon, the renowned Ifa priest of Osogbo, has explained the dangers that await a married woman who is unfaithful to her husband.He made this ...

Patrisse Cullors and noé olivas trade activism for spiritual reflection in a joint exhibition that emphasizes the Ifá religious tradition. By Jonathan Griffin LOS ANGELES — At the Charlie James ...