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You do not beat the child of the goddess and get its applause. Professor Karin Barber is a foremost authority in Yoruba praise names (Oríkì). In a 1990 piece, she tells two Osun goddess stories ...
The festival of Osun-Osgobo, which takes place every year in Osogbo, Nigeria, celebrates the goddess of fertility, Osun. The festival renews the contract between humans and the divine: Osun offers ...
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has described Easter as a momentum reminder that tribulation is a temporary condition that will give way for everlasting relief. Governor Adeleke also enjoined ...
The dense forest of the Osun Sacred Grove, on the outskirts of the city of Osogbo, is one of the last remnants of primary high forest in southern Nigeria. Regarded as the abode of the goddess of ...