CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 2020, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival will feature a program about the West African nation of Benin and how communities connect to their ...

Jessica Ifker Delpirou brings solid experience in leading major companies and investment funds to this new stage for Orisha Commerce. Formerly an Operating Partner at Serena, she supported founders ...

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, has reiterated his commitment to protecting the Yoruba race from practices he described as infiltrations, such as deity worship by kings, land ...

Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO), Biodun Ajiboye, has described the concept of Rio de Janeiro Carnival as one that is predicated on ...

Oshunbumi Fernandez-West took over as head of Philadelphia’s Odunde Festival in from the founder and her mother Lois Fernandez. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) Have a question about Philly’s neighborhoods or ...

The Executive Secretary/CEO, National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO), Otunba Biodun Ajiboye has described the total concept of Rio de Janeiro Carnival as one that is predicated on Yoruba ...

US-based scholar and former Vice Chancellor Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof Wande Abimbola, has said that the planned World Orisha Congress should have been held in the past 50 years, saying ...

The National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) is set to collaborate with the Brazilian Consulate on the accreditation of Yoruba traditional practitioners (babalawos, ifa priests, and ...

Ryan Coogler’s supernatural thriller Sinners continued its global box office dominance with an impressive N269.9 million haul in Nigerian cinemas, marking a 43% increase over the weekend of April ...

Akintoye added that an activist, Sunday Adeyemo, more commonly called Sunday Igboho is not committing any crime under Nigerian law or the international community for leading a self-determination ...