Topic
Yoruba
Yoruba beliefs center on orishas and Ifá divination in West African and diaspora traditions. Scholarly guides to deities, cosmology, and spiritual practice.
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.
Folklore
Àbíkú and Ọgbanje: Reading African Folklore in Contemporary Storytelling
The advice always arrives at the same moment. You have just finished The Famished Road, or Freshwater, or the chapter of Things Fall Apart where a stone comes out of the ground, and someone tells you…