Category: Literature – Religious

Yemi Elebuibon

Literature – Religious, People, Religion, Tradition – Customs

Elebuibon Yemi; Traditionalist from Nigeria. A number of publications by Elebuibon was translated into Spanish and he was a constant invitee to foreign forums notably from North and Latin America consisting often of audiences who like his teaching or initiation into Ifa pantheon. He is a Cultural Adviser to the National Black Theatre in Harlem,…
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Orunmila

History – General, Literature – Myths, Literature – Religious, Philosophy – African

Orunmila was a philosopher, and major intellectual personae of the Yoruba Ifa literary corpus which deals with subjects as diverse as history, geography, religion, or music. Orunmila together with his sixteen disciples is credited with the authorship of most of the four thousand and more verses attached to the Odu Ifa, a record of the…
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Mojola Agbebi

History – General, Journalism, Literature – General, Literature – Religious, Philosophy – African

Mojola Agbebi is the native name of the poet and advocate of Ethiopianism, who was born April 10, 1860 as David Brown Vincent in Ilesha. Mojola repudiated his European name in 1894, the year he was ordained as a Baptist minister in Liberia. He frequently used his pulpit to deliver anticolonial sermons, which was also…
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