In the Yoruba religious tradition, divine spirits known as orishas rule over various cosmic forces and elements of nature. There is Shango, the king orisha of thunder and fire; Yemaya, the orisha of ...

The coming of the rainy season normally marks the advent of Shango Festival in the Orisha cosmology. Egbe Onisin Eledumare, in association with the worldwide Isese Agabye, presentsits annual Shango ...

The religion focuses on building relationships between human beings and powerful, but mortal, spirits, called Orishas. An Orisha is a manifestation of Olodumare (God). Followers believe that these ...

'Giants die in our midst unnoticed. A grand monumental tree falls in the garden and its like nobody even knew there was a tree.' So begins a recent obituary to a man who is at the heart of our program ...