Art matters in our lives. In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. The opon ifa, or ...

The incomplete presentation of Yoruba civilization as an art without science, due to the Abrahamic cultural imperialism, has made it easy to demonize and denigrate it, making it irrelevant to the ...

Omitonade Ifawemimo was introduced to Orisha spiritual traditions by her parents, both long-time devotees, at the age of five. Now a young adult, the Yemoja priestess has begun spreading word of her ...

Nigeria is a secular state, but religion nonetheless dominates social and political life. Almost 49% of the 186-million-strong population is Muslim, spread largely over the north, central and ...