Art matters in our lives. In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. The opon ifa, or ...

IFA, otherwise known as Orunmila is the Yoruba god of wisdom (Divination). He is one of the principal deities of the Yoruba people and it is believed to be one of the great ministers Olodumare (the ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking study published in the Current Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Nigerian art historian and cultural scholar, Akinsoji Oni, has shed new light on the ancient Yoruba ...

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 ...

This Yoruba millennial priestess has made it her mission to change the narrative about Yoruba spirituality. A Adaobi Onyeakagbu Follow Omítonàdé Ifáwemímo, a twenty-something year old graduate from ...

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 ...

Oba Solomon Ilesanmi Ajibade is the Owa Odo Ayedun in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State. In this interview with Yaqoub Popoola the monarch revealed how he used the Holy Bible to defeat Ifa ...

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 ...

Countering the assumption that money acts as an agent of abstraction and 'disembedment', anthropologists tend to draw money into analogies with other objects of exchange, downplaying its uniquely ...