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Yoruba

Yoruba beliefs center on orishas and Ifá divination in West African and diaspora traditions. Scholarly guides to deities, cosmology, and spiritual practice.

Folklore 6 min

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…

By Tendai