Yoruba
Yoruba beliefs center on orishas and Ifá divination in West African and diaspora traditions. Scholarly guides to deities, cosmology, and spiritual practice.
Netflix Releases and African Mythology: Who Gets Named
On a wet Saturday in August I did something unscientific with an evening's worth of Netflix releases.
The Character Arc and Orisha: What Film Adaptation Changes
There is a question asked in every story meeting, every workshop, every notes call: what does she want, and who is she by the end? It sounds like common sense.
Yoruba Indigenous Religion in Church and Mosque: The 1% Gap
Around four in the morning during Ramadan, in the older quarters of Ìbàdàn and Ilọrin, a small band walks the street playing people awake for the pre-dawn meal. The music is called wéré, or ajísáàrì.
Children of Blood and Bone: What a Film Adaptation Announcement Can and Can't Do for Orïsha
The advice comes around with every trailer, and it came around again with this one: a big enough movie will finally teach the world about African religion.
Children of Blood and Bone: African Fantasy Fiction and Yoruba Belief
Children of Blood and Bone is not a book about Yoruba religion. That is a strange thing to say about the best-known work of African fantasy fiction of the last decade — a novel whose magic clans are…
Electronic Music Production and the Orishas in Chicago House
The first time I heard a batá phrase come through a Chicago club system, it was not being played on batá.