“Excess of words in Yoruba” was the justification used by a member of a judging panel at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval to dock points from a samba school. The group Unidos de Padre Miguel had put together ...

President John Dramani Mahama has been installed as the Aare Atayeto Oodua of the Source by Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Babatunde ...

Preparations have reached an advanced stage in Osun State, Nigeria, as one of Africa’s most respected traditional rulers prepares to confer a rare and distinguished honour on President John Dramani ...

There’s a religious paradox in the African Diaspora. While evangelical Catholicism and Protestantism are the fastest growing faiths on the Motherland, African indigenous faiths are growing among ...

Láolú Senbanjo’s singular black and gold geometric patterns welcome Yoruba culture and other Nigerian traditions into a contemporary context, translating the New York-based Nigerian artist’s drawing ...

Critiqued by Tejumola Olaniyan, Akinwumi Ogundiran, Grey Gundaker and Adeleke Adeeko with response by Rowland Abiodun in African studies review (Piscataway, NJ) 58 (3) December 2015, pages 215-223 ...

A British clothing retailer has come under fire for trademarking the name of the west African Yoruba people several years ago, igniting a debate online about whether trademarking names of ethnic ...

A British clothing retailer has come under fire for trademarking the name of the west African Yoruba people several years ago, igniting a debate online about whether trademarking names of ethnic ...