Through dazzling beadwork, a mixed-media art exhibit celebrates African Yoruba heritage and family traditions from a rising ...

Atunto, a global Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, has strongly condemned recent claims suggesting that the Igbo people once occupied Ile-Ife, the ancestral homeland of the Yoruba. In a statement ...

The International Council for Ifa Religion (ICIR) has said the Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi needs to relearn Yoruba history to avail himself and his chiefs real story behind evolvement of ...

Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is a state that's still grappling with its national identity in the wake of ethnic tensions and religious conflict. Own the Mask, Own the Town: Contesting ...

The Yoruba people are scattered throughout different parts of the world. Here are African countries they call home. African countries where Yorubas can be found [thecable] The Yorubas, a nation ...

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, says 16 gold-plated beaded crowns were stolen from the Alaafin palace during the British invasion of Oyo in November 1895, describing the artifacts as symbols of ...

A Yoruba socio-political group, the Yoruba Revolutionary Movement (YOREM), has condemned any form of U.S. military intervention in Nigeria and warned against what it describes as internal extremist ...

The Yoruba people of Nigeria believe Ife to be a sacred city founded by the gods and the birthplace of humanity. Lying 135 miles northeast of the Nigerian city Lagos, Ife was where archaeologists ...

For the research related to this article, Akinwumi Ogundiran gratefully acknowledges funding from the Ijesa Cultural Foundation, Boston University Humanities Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation for ...