The Ade, or royal beaded crown, is characterized by an inverted goblet-shaped hat with applied gold, blue, green, orange, black, red and white beaded designs. The bell-shaped lower section is ...

The Oluwo of Iwoland in Osun state, Oba Adbulrasheed Akanbi Saturday made history when he dropped the the title of Oba and declared his resolve to adopt the Emir title popularly known with Northern ...

My father, a prominent Christian leader, once visited the Oyo Museum, where artefacts and relics of the old Oyo Empire—such as the Opon Ifa, masquerade masks, and Sango outfits—were displayed. He ...

Aregbesola argued that no king in Yorubaland can claim exclusivity to any religion as the culture mandates them to participate in all religious practices. A former Minister of Interior, Rauf ...

Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, has criticised Yoruba monarchs for allegedly abandoning the traditional religious values they are meant to represent. In a post shared via his Instagram story on Tuesday, ...

Meghan Markle has said she is 'deeply humbled' by her new Nigerian name as she thanked a Yoruba King for welcoming her and Prince Harry 'home' in a personal letter. The Duke, 39, and Duchess of Sussex ...

Oodua Peoples’ Congress OPC (Reformed) has condemned the controversial manner ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo commanded some monarch in Iseyin area of Oyo State to stand up and sit down at recent ...

During a visit to the palace of the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, the monarch addressed the intersection of Yoruba kingship and religion. He asserted that the throne is not tied to any ...

The film is inspired by older historical Yoruba films that had embodied the symbolic spirit of Yoruba mythologies. But, unlike the old films that were tacky and excessive in technique and acting, this ...

Though African works of art have been traditionally identified by the name of the ethnic group that produced them or by a particular style of art, the individual artists who created them were not ...