February 2012
9 posts
Works by Yoruba Oshogbo Artist Yinka Adeyemi
37thstate:
Adeyemi was one of the original artists of the famed Oshogbo School (named for the city of that name), which arose in the newly independent Nigeria of the early 1960’s.
January 2012
15 posts
In Defence of Traditional African Religions
Below (in italics) is a statement I wrote to support a friend of mine in court. He’s a Cuban Santero and Palo priest. His English ex-wife is making up all kinds of lies about his religion in order to prevent him having any access to their child after the divorce, making out he forced her to drink chicken blood and other garish nonsense. He’s a just regular guy, gentle-spirited and...
BL▲CK ▲CRYLIC: Stephen Lawrence: Murder to... →
blackacrylic:
[13 September 1974 – 22 April 1993]
I struggle for words to express my grief when I think about the racist, unprovoked, violent murder of Stephen Lawrence. I was six-years-old in 1993 when eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence was killed. Of my vivid memories from 1993 Lawrence’s death is one…
December 2011
55 posts
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! LET THE BLESSINGS FLOW...
37thStateDOTcom: Ala- Igbo Earth Mother Goddess →
37thstate:
Ala is the Ibo Fertility Goddess of the earth. The Ibo people of Nigeria call her the mother of all things, but she is both the fertile earth and the empty field after the harvest. She is present at the beginning of the cycle of life, making children grow in their mother’s womb, and…
Free Mumia! →
dreamhampton1:
“Now that it is clear that Mumia should never have been on death row in the first place, justice will not be served by relegating him to prison for the rest of his life—yet another form of death sentence. Based on even a minimal following of international human rights standards, Mumia must now be…
Oṣun Grove at Oṣogbo - UNESCO page →
“The Osun Sacred Grove is the largest and perhaps the only remaining example of a once widespread phenomenon that used to characterise every Yoruba settlement. It now represents Yoruba sacred groves and their reflection of Yoruba cosmology. It is a tangible expression of Yoruba divinatory and cosmological systems; its annual festival is a living thriving and evolving response to Yoruba...
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