Yoruba
Yoruba beliefs center on orishas and Ifá divination in West African and diaspora traditions. Scholarly guides to deities, cosmology, and spiritual practice.
Afrofusion Cinema: How Netflix Releases Carry African Myth
I ran the first twenty minutes of Anikulapo twice on a Tuesday night. The first pass was ordinary watching.
Children of Blood and Bone: The Orisha Behind the Film Adaptation
In the behind-the-scenes footage there is a moment where a costume designer lifts a beaded panel and talks about weight — how it hangs, how it will move at a gallop.
Tomi Adeyemi, Orïsha, and What the Film News Leaves Out
Children of Blood and Bone is not a story from Yoruba religion. It was never trying to be, and its author has been clearer about that than most of her coverage has.
Jungian Archetypes Applied to African Traditions: Àbíkú, Ọgbanje, and the Child
The first time I saw the name written down I read it as a line of verse. Málọmọ́ — má lọ mọ́, do not go again.
Children of Blood and Bone: The Film Trailer and the Real Orïsha
The word lands early, cut over drums and a horizon of red dust: Orïsha. Three syllables, one diaeresis, the name of a kingdom that has never existed anywhere but on a page.
Children of Blood and Bone Movie News: Who the Òrìṣà Really Are
A trailer went out this week for Children of Blood and Bone, and somewhere in the first minute a word crosses the screen that already has a street named after it in Ọ̀ṣogbo, a drum pattern in Havana…