The festival of Osun-Osgobo, which takes place every year in Osogbo, Nigeria, celebrates the goddess of fertility, Osun. The festival renews the contract between humans and the divine: Osun offers ...

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International Journal of the Commons, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2022), pp. 94-107 (14 pages) Globally, sacred groves represent a traditional form of community-based conservation, recognized as areas of cultural ...

Part of its course is in Osun State, where it flows through the Osun-Osogbo sacred grove, a Unesco world heritage site. Osun worshippers visit the river to pray daily. The largest gathering of ...

The dense forest of the Osun Sacred Grove, on the outskirts of the city of Osogbo, is one of the last remnants of primary high forest in southern Nigeria. Regarded as the abode of the goddess of ...

Princess Adedoyin Talabi Faniyi of the Osun Sacred Grove in Osogbo, Nigeria and landscape architect Tarna Klitzner based in Cape Town, South Africa emphasized the importance of integrating the ...

Every August, Osogbo celebrates the annual Osun Osogbo festival, which draws thousands of worshippers and tourists from ...