Art matters in our lives. In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. The opon ifa, or ...

IFA, otherwise known as Orunmila is the Yoruba god of wisdom (Divination). He is one of the principal deities of the Yoruba people and it is believed to be one of the great ministers Olodumare (the ...

Extracted from: Dialogue and alliance (New York) 3 (2) summer 1989, pages 24-29. Yoruba divination, known as Ifa, utilizes a wide range of artifacts from unadorned natural objects, such as the palm ...

Ifa concept of cosmology as basis for divination -- The use of ancestor reverance in divination -- Divination with four cowries -- Transposing four coweries into Odu -- Obi Abata -- Merindinlogun -- ...

In a groundbreaking study published in the Current Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Nigerian art historian and cultural scholar, Akinsoji Oni, has shed new light on the ancient Yoruba ...

Priests of the Afro-Cuban Ifá-Oracle are increasingly using smartphones in their divination sessions. One particular application allows the meanings and recommendations of all the 256 existing oracle ...

Members of the Ladigbolu Royal Family in ancient Oyo town have urged kingmakers to allow the oracle to select who becomes the Alaafin of Oyo, among those jostling for the seat. The family said there ...

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, on Wednesday said that whenever people use the search engine Google to source information, they’re consulting Ifa –a divination oracle. The revered monarch added ...

Oba Solomon Ilesanmi Ajibade is the Owa Odo Ayedun in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State. In this interview with Yaqoub Popoola the monarch revealed how he used the Holy Bible to defeat Ifa ...