Tag Archive | "Festivals"
World Ifa Festival 2009
Orishada.com reports that World Ifa Festival was held Saturday June 6, 2009 at Oketase the World Ifa Temple, Ile-Ife. This festival celebrates the New Year for all the traditional Yoruba practitioners.
Continue reading...Onipa Abusia’s Summer 2008 Upcoming Events
Monday, June 23, 2008
Upcoming Akan Traditional African Religious events and festivals for summer.
Continue reading...A New Vision for Odunde
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Odunde is the largest African cultural festival in Philadelphia, and one of America's largest and longest-running celebrations of African culture. Since its inception as a one-day street festival, Odunde has drawn more than a million celebrants, including visitors from as far away as West Africa.
Continue reading...Voodoo Day celebrated in Benin
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Thousands of followers have gathered in Benin in the seaside town of Ouidah to celebrate National Voodoo Day. They met at a beach called the point of no return, where slaves left on ships for the Americas centuries ago, taking their religion with them. Of Benin's seven million citizens, 65% believe in Voodoo. The day has been a national holiday for a decade.
Continue reading...Osun Osogbo – A festival of fertile heritage
Thursday, June 5, 2008
By Steve Ayorinde SHE was no masquerade. But with her face partially hidden by the calabash on her head and the drape around her, she partially resembled one. Young, barefooted and dandily expressionless, there was no missing the Votary Maid, upon whom the success of the closing ceremony of the Osun Osogbo festival rested on [...]
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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.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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