The real issue is how to ensure the survival of age-old Yoruba civilisation, without sacrificing the core Yoruba value of tolerance of difference and plurality of perspectives. Oduduwa Hall at Obafemi ...

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, has stated that Ile-Ife should not be regarded as the origin of the Yoruba race. Oba Akanbi made this known in a video posted on his official ...

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja 11, today likened the Yoruba deity Oluorogbo with Jesus Christ, drawing similarities between them. There is no difference between Oluorogbo and Jesus ...

The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has raised concerns over what he described as an escalating struggle for supremacy among Yoruba traditional ...

Yoruba Generalissimo, Iba Gani Adams, has warned Yoruba traditional rulers that ego fights constitute a major obstacle to unity within the race.

President of the Yoruba Council Worldwide, Oladotun Hassan, has said the authority of the Ooni of Ife is global and revered across Yorubaland. Oladotun, who made this clarification on Friday, while ...

The Oluwo of Iwo land, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi, has dismissed the claim of Ile-Ife, in present-day Osun State, as the source of the Yoruba race. Oba Akanbi stated this in a video shared on his ...

Historical facts and legends concerning the place of Ile-Ife in Yoruba history abound. In fact, it is incontrovertible that every Yoruba of whatever dialectal variation has his roots in Ife. Seyi ...

The royal father revealed that Ghanians had traced their lineage to Aga-Ako in Ile-Ife and that Ethiopians are sons and daughters of Oramiya in Okerewe. Ooni disclosed this on Saturday during the ...

In the Yoruba faith, there is a thing called destiny. The story of how Mark Underwood, an African American from Indiana, gets to Puerto Rico and becomes Otura Mun, a Babaláwo priest in the Yoruba ...

EJO ki i se tiaraeniki a ma mo da (One must be honest with oneself, even when judgement is uncomfortable). Any fair ...

The crux of the Puerto Rico-based group ÌFÉ, says bandleader Otura Mun, is “about bringing people together, and seeing ourselves as people connected.” In their critically-acclaimed 2017 debut, ...