Yoruba people

Eyo masquerades don’t speak to anyone; apparently, it is a ‘no-no’. However, they do have a strange way of communicating with observers and spectators. Throaty short words, almost inaudible but uttered in strange eerie-like sounds. What is the message they give and what does it mean?

Yoruba Eshu : Èṣù (other names include Exu, Eshu Eleggua, Esu Elegbara, Eshu Elegbara, Elegba, Legba, Papa Legba and Eleda) is both an orisha and one of the most well-known deities of Yorùbá religion and related New World traditions.

FROM THE NIGERIAN TRIBUNE NEWSPAPER Yoruba cultural nationalism Written by Diran Apata ⁠ ⁠ Sunday, 22 December 2013 ⁠ ⁠ A few days ago, in a leisurely discussion involving many Yoruba men, women an…

Yoruba woman with decorated/ tattooed skin

A Photograph by Taiwo Arifayan

A young Creole woman in a tignon of her own creation. Painting from the Historic New Orleans Collection. There are many reasons why it’s not “just hair” for Black women. Before the "Black is Beautiful" and natural hair movement emerged during the 1960s, anti-Black hair sentiment in Western societ

A pivotal conversation led him on a quest to understand African history and create a one-of-a-kind village for practitioners of the Yoruba religion.