A U.S.-born African Vodou priest, Baba Oserjeman Adefunmi, established a traditional Yoruban village in Beaufort County, S.C., in the 1970s, creating the first significant beachhead for Ifa and ...

A U.S.-born African Vodou priest, Baba Oserjeman Adefunmi, established a traditional Yoruban village in Beaufort County, S.C., in the 1970s, creating the first significant beachhead for Ifa and ...

Object Details Creator Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Description. In 2020, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival will feature a program about the West African nation of Benin and ...

The Ifa divination system, which makes use of an extensive corpus of texts and mathematical formulas, is practised among Yoruba communities and by the African diaspora in the Americas and the ...

American Priest, African Faith Earl White is a Kansas-born priest of the African religion called Ifa. He talks about the origin and philosophies of Ifa and his personal journey in the faith.

Following the passing of Benoit Mandelbrot this week, Horace Campbell writes of the mathematician's groundbreaking academic work on fractals and the concept's historical centrality in African ...