The Yoruba religion (Yoruba: Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), West African Orisa (Òrìṣà), or Isese (Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practice...

Shango (Yoruba language: Ṣàngó, also known as Changó or Xangô in Latin America; as Jakuta or Badé; and as Ṣangó in Trinidad Orisha) is an Orisha (or spirit)...

Oshosi (Yoruba: Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì, Portuguese: Oxóssi) is an Orisha of the Yoruba religion in West Africa and subsequently in Brazil and Cuba. Oshosi is the spirit...

Olokun (Yoruba: Olókun) is an orisha spirit in Yoruba religion. Olokun is believed to be the parent of Aje, the orisha of great wealth and of the bottom...

Akara (Yoruba: àkàrà; Hausa: kosai; Portuguese: acarajé, pronounced [akaɾaˈʒɛ] ) is a type of fritter made from cowpeas or beans (black-eyed peas) by the...

transliterations in other languages) is the major water spirit from the Yoruba religion. She is the mother of all Orishas. She is also the mother of humanity...

The shekere (from Yoruba Ṣẹ̀kẹ̀rẹ̀) is a percussion instrument consisting of a dried gourd with beads or cowries woven into a net covering the gourd. There...

as an icon of Jewish identity throughout Central and Eastern Europe. The Yoruba language can be found across the globe, on every continent, however enforced...

p. 256. ISBN 0870992678. Adeoye, C. L. (1989). Ìgbàgbọ́ àti ẹ̀sìn Yorùbá (in Yoruba). Ibadan: Evans Bros. Nigeria Publishers. pp. 270–279. ISBN 9781675098...

Amerindian peoples and the descendants of formerly enslaved people of a Yoruba (or more generally Central West African) background in nearly all regions...

the Yoruba people, Yakooyo, Asipa, Akinlalu, Gbongan and Ode-Omu. Ipetumodu's populace practices Christianity and Islam, while, like other Yoruba cities...

reimagines Sandro Botticelli's work, The Birth of Venus, by placing Oshun, the Yoruba goddess of fertility, sensuality, and prosperity, in a sea shell surrounded...

characteristics of their Yorùbá deities to Catholic saints with similar qualities. Still today all Candomble sessions are conducted in Yoruba, not Portuguese....

within a culture: Owomoyela tells of a Yoruba radio program that asked people to interpret an unfamiliar Yoruba proverb, "very few people could do so"...

of poems in several languages including English, Chinese, Bengkulu, and Yoruba in Nigeria.[citation needed] Another significant aspect of nursery rhymes...

Kikongo. In the comics, Wakanda has three official languages: Wakandan, Yoruba and Hausa. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, characters from Wakanda are...

belong to the Yoruba people, who became known as the "nagô". The word derives from ànàgó, a derogatory term used by the Dahomey to refer to Yoruba-speaking...

2024-02-03. Cabrera, Lydia (2019-04-01). Anagó: vocabulario lucumí: El yoruba que se habla en Cuba (in Spanish). Linkgua. ISBN 978-84-9007-834-1. "Matanzas"...

approved statewide: Espírito Santo — Pomeranian and German Rio de Janeiro — Yoruba, Bantu and Ewe Rio Grande do Sul — Talian and Riograndenser Hunsrückisch...

(Muslims were called malê in Bahia at this time, from Yoruba image that designated a Yoruba Muslim.) Fearing the example might be followed, the Brazilian...

Coast to the Slave Coast), Popo (imported tribes such as Ana and Baribas), Yorubas and Congas (perhaps from Kongasso, Ivory Coast). Enslaved Africans also...

transposition of an oral natural language into a pitch string. When quickly spoken, Yoruba vowels are assimilated and consonants elided, so the linguistic information...

Orishas of the earth, is also a sculptor and his work is entirely focused on Yoruba mythology and art. In painting, many artists and designers have dedicated...

Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, Clave y Guaguancó, AfroCuba de Matanzas and Yoruba Andabo. Since its early days, the genre's popularity has been largely confined...

(May 2, 2023). "Netflix cancela 'Smiley', que sólo tendrá una temporada". Cultura en Serie (in Spanish). Netflix [@netflix] (January 24, 2024). "Wilhelm...

self-reported their African ancestry, were found to be 38% African (e.g., Yoruba). Risk allele variants G1 and G2 are associated with chronic kidney disease...

University Press of Mississippi. Adeoye, C. L. (1989). Ìgbàgbọ́ àti ẹ̀sìn Yorùba (in Yoruba). Ibadan: Evans Bros. Nigeria Publishers. p. 11. ISBN 9781675098....

Calabashes are used in making the West African instruments like the Ṣẹ̀kẹ̀rẹ̀, a Yoruba instrument similar to a maraca, kora (a harp-lute), xalam/ngoni (a lute)...

Lima often mentions and pays tribute to Yemanjá, a water spirit from the Yoruba religion. Lima does charitable work helping with an orphanage, "Caminhos...

separate cultures. The cabildos were formed mainly from four groups: the Yoruba (the Lucumi in Cuba); the Congolese (Palo in Cuba); Dahomey (the Fon or...