Topic

Ifa

Ifa is a Yoruba divination oracle system for guidance and decision-making across West African traditions, including analysis of methods and cosmology.

Literature 11 min

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…

By Célestin