The Yorubas, for one, do not always assign gender to some of their deities, the gender of some gods was never specified. Èṣù, the deity of chance, change and uncertainty, is considered male in a part ...

Four years after the launch of his unique historical novel, Gods and Heroes: Itan legends of the golden age at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island, Lagos, Dr. Oladele ...

Extracted from Africana Marburgensia (Marburg) 22 (2) 1989, pages 45-52. The annual Oshun (Osun) festival in Oshogbo embodies ritual which derives from myths of the female deity Oshun, the protector ...

Appreciating cultural heritage and using it to imagine a better future: that’s one of the goals of self-taught photographer and visual artist Ade Okelarin. Professionally, he goes by the name of ...

Elders and leaders of the Southwest geo- political zone have been complaining of glaring marginalisation of the Yoruba in today’s Nigeria. In this report, Assistant Editor, Dare Odufowokan, takes a ...

The consolidation of power by the Alaafin of Oyo in the late seventeenth century and the rise of the Oyo Empire prefigured the spread of Oyo's influence and its dominance of Yoruba history for the ...