Topic
Abiku
Abiku are spirits causing repeated deaths in Yoruba belief. Research spiritual explanations, protective practices, and cultural beliefs across West Africa.
Literature
African Folklore in Contemporary Storytelling: Àbíkú and Ọgbanje
Two hundred and fifty-six. That is the entire sign system of Ifá, the divination tradition of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria, Benin and Togo — and one of the deepest reservoirs that African…
Literature
Àbíkú and Ịgbanje: African Folklore in Contemporary Storytelling, and the Label That Almost Explained It Away
Okagbue Uyanwa digs beside the orange tree while the compound watches. Ezinma, nine years old, has led the men down toward the stream and back again, in no hurry, and then pointed at the ground.