According to Abimbola, ‘writing is an enemy of remembrance’. “What do you mean, sir?” I asked. “The 256 Ifa corpus can be sectionalised into 800 large volumes.

At the instance of the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and his Rwandan counterpart, President Paul Kagame met ...

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Conventional wisdom holds that people tend to get more religious over time. However, compared to older generations, young ...

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Read about where religiously unaffiliated populations have had the largest net gains, and how those who've joined the "nones" ...

I’m often asked whether religion can be a person’s purpose. It’s a fair question, especially when I talk about the two different types of purpose—what I call "Big P Purpose" and "little p ...

The 4th Edition of the Black History Festival (BHF 2025) is set to be a groundbreaking gathering of global African leaders, innovators, creatives, and changemakers from across Africa, the ...

Fidèle Anato, Beninese actor and professional storyteller, performing a tale at the French Institute of Benin in Cotonou, October 2021. (Photo supplied / LCI) In Agonmè, a village on the ...

Here we go! The Lenten journey has begun, starting on Ash Wednesday, March 5. The tone was set by the evangelist Matthew, who reminds us not to blow our trumpets when giving alms, not to put on a ...