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Ita Ifa’Orisa ‘Anago’
Anago is the path of Ifa'Orisha that seeks the original and most sacred truth verified by the sacred Odu.
Continue reading...Cape Coast Castle
26. December 2009
In 1655 the Swedes began construction on a fort situated on one of the better landing places in West Africa, land which the Portuguese called ‘Cabo Corso’ meaning ‘short cape’. Over the next decade, Fort Carolusburg, as it was called, would change owners roughly half a dozen times, facing, among others, occupation by the Danes, [...]
Continue reading...Fort Goede Hoop (Senya Beraku)
26. December 2009
By the end of the seventeenth century, the Dutch were one of the few major European trading powers whose primary interest remained in the trade of gold rather than the trade in slaves. By the eighteenth century, however, the slave trade was firmly established as the major market of European interest, and the returns from [...]
Continue reading...Forts and Slave Castles of Ghana
26. December 2009
FORTS AND CASTLES OF GHANA European Contact with the West African Coast Up until the early part of the fifteenth century, European nations were economically isolated for political and technological reasons. Politically, during this period, Europe was in shambles. She was intensely engaged in the Hundred Years War until 1435, was under attack from the [...]
Continue reading...Survival And Resurgence Of The Yoruba In The Americas
21. December 2009
The effects that the slave trade and colonization and surviving indigenous traditions of Africa in the U.S.
Continue reading...Chief Ajamu Laid to Rest Today
20. December 2009
Members of the Oyotunji African Village in Sheldon celebrated the life and mourned the death of Chief Ajamu today.
Continue reading...Ibusa Town: a Funeral Ceremony in Nigeria
14. December 2009
Ibusa offers an example of a town in Nigeria where traditional funeral rites are still very much held in honour of the dead.
Continue reading...Review of Traditional African Medicine
30. August 2009
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Wednesday, called for a critical review of traditional medicine practice in the state.
Continue reading...African and Caribbean Martial Arts List
13. August 2009
A comprehensive list of martial arts systems originating from Africa and/or the African diaspora.
Continue reading...Traditional African Religion Underfire?
18. May 2009
As arrests and investigations rise across the country, in particular in Florida and California, we have to ask ourselves - is it animal rights, western intolerance or religious bigotry?
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- Interview with Awo Owolabi, Son of the Araba
- Ifa Reading of the Year, Oke Itase, Ile-Ife Nigeria on June 5, 2010
- Orisa Priestess helps expand West African faith’s reach
- A Response to the Accord of the Oba Oriate
- How Should We Answer the Oba Oriates on Their Manifesto Statement and Accord?
- Founders of Various Traditional African Spiritual Lineages in U.S.
26. December 2009
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