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Serpents
Fantasy Novel Review: Aido Hwedo, Bida, and the African Dragon
There is a moment, maybe forty pages into a certain kind of book, when the dragon stops being a dragon.
Yoruba
Electronic Music Production and the Orisha: Three Ways a Sacred Sound Ends Up in a Track
You have met the word already, probably without being told what it was. Orisha, or Orixá, or Òrìs̀à with the tone marks left in, sitting in an artist name, a track title, a label's catalogue.
Nigeria
Oba, Emir, and Ballot Box: Traditional Authority in Contemporary Nigerian Politics
The convoy stops before the ballot does. In the months before a Nigerian general election, a candidate's motorcade turns off a highway in Ile-Ife, or Sokoto, or a town in Anambra State, and the…
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