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The Yoruba culture of drum-talking is an agent of cultural preservation and an indirect means of preserving food sovereignty, a don at North West University, Prof. Lere Amusan, has said. Amusan, chair ...

Nigeria’s New Year traditions, especially among the Yoruba Kingdom, reflect a deep blend of spirituality, community, and ...

Juneteenth, which commemorates the day the last slaves of the Confederacy were freed in 1865, has come and gone. However — if you’ll allow me a brief moment on my radical, extremist soapbox — one ...

Last month, a fight between two men in Shasha market in Ibadan – a Yoruba cobbler and a Hausa cart pusher – triggered a wave of conflict that spilled out of the market and into the host community, ...