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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Yoruba sculptors carved several of ...

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 ...

For many decades, the western world denounced the African culture and religious practices as not only anti-social but barbaric. That was the basis upon which missionaries invaded the continent from ...