Honouring Indigenous culture

Nearly 1,000 dancers are expected to kick up their feet at the Poundmaker’s Lodge Treatment Centre’s annual traditional powwow in St. Albert this weekend. The weekend-long event will be kicked off by a traditional story-telling session with elders on Friday,…

A Museum’s Quest to Find a Looted Yorùbá Costume’s Original Owners

Over the last few decades, reckonings of all manner have rocked the foundational ways we have consumed and understood works of art as well as the narratives that inform them. In museums, often the most public-facing arenas to experience art,…

Evolution of Iraq’s tattoo culture shows impact of US legacy

Evolution of Iraq’s tattoo. Tattoos, which are permanent by nature, are a fitting example of the unchangeable legacy that the U.S-led invasion left in Iraq.

Largest-ever lesson of Zumba dance

Largest-ever lesson of Zumba dance held for elderly in Moscow region – A record-breaking Zumba continental dancing class was held in the city of Balashikha

Shanghai Sacred: inside China’s religious revival – photo essay

Photographer and anthropologist Liz Hingley uncovers the spiritual landscape of China’s largest city, revealing the spaces and rituals of this cosmopolitan megalopolis that is home to 26 million people – and to religious groups from Buddhism to Islam, Christianity to Baha’ism, Hinduism…

Nigeria, Korea deepen relationship through dance culture

The Grand finale of the Korean-Pop Dance Competition was held last weekend at the University of Lagos. In its eighth editions, the dance contest, which is organised yearly by the Korean Cultural Centre of the Embassy of the Republic of…

Ooni urges Yoruba to unite against killings in South-West

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Sunday said it was high time the South-West geopolitical zone united and defended itself against bandits killing its people. Ogunwusi, who said the  South-West had had enough of the killings by suspected…

Gani Adams: Yoruba won’t forgive governors who adopt Ruga

Gani Adams, aare ona kakanfo of Yorubaland, says that the Yoruba tribe will not forgive governors that adopt Ruga settlement, a scheme initially proposed by the federal government to tackle crisis between farmers and herdsmen. According to Nigerian Tribune, he likened…

Alaafin, Adams, Adebanjo, Odumakin decry herdsmen attacks in Yorubaland

Prominent Yoruba leaders on Thursday re-echoed the legacies of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, as they reviewed cases of kidnapping in the South-West region of the country. The leaders, who converged to honour the memory and legacies of Awolowo…

Insecurity: Ooni, Alaafin to convene meeting of Yoruba leaders

THE Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, and the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III will convene a meeting of Yoruba Leaders of Thought to deliberate on the spate of insecurity in the region. Ooni of Ife,…