Watch the trailer for “Between Worlds,” a gripping Yoruba fantasy series coming to Showmax in March. Starring Femi Branch, Soibifaa Dokubo, and Ropo Ewenla, this 10-part series takes viewers on a ...

Before Black History Month closes out, attention must be paid to the Arden Theatre’s late-February welcome of Philadelphia ...

WEST AFRICA has long been a source of booze. In Yoruba mythology Obatala, a deity sent to create humans, stumbled on palm wine and fell into a drunken slumber before completing the task.

With his Black Privilege Publishing imprint at Atria Books celebrating its fifth anniversary, the radio host and bestselling ...

An eminent lawyer and politician, Oba Mekunu Owolabi Salis has commended Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, over the successful emergence ...

The sacred grove is regarded as the abode of Osun, the goddess of fertility and one of the pantheons of the Yoruba gods. The landscape of the grove is dotted with a meandering river, sanctuaries and ...

Voodoo — which has its own pope whose reign dates back to the 1400s — borrows heavily from the mythology and cultural displays of Yoruba people of Nigeria’s southwest and reflects other ...

Fantasy has never been a genre I gravitate toward. I always joke that there’s too much going on and I’ve got no imagination ...

as the god of thunder and lightning in the Yoruba mythology is still worshipped throughout Yorubaland, Dahomey,Benin and even in diaspora land like Cuba, Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago,among others ...

As children dance with great speed and energy in colorful robes, guided by the drumbeats and chants from dance troupes, the gods and spirits that are evident all around the arena are beckoned upon by ...