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Araba of Osogbo Ifayemi Elebuibon to speak at Trinidad and Tobago Isese Festival
Orisa devotees from around Trinidad and Tobago will gather on September 24, Republic Day to observe the first annual Isese Festival – a celebration of this country’s African spiritual traditions. The...
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Dance the Guns to Silence II – 20th anniversary of the murders of Ken...
DAY of ACTION on the 20th Anniversary of the outrageous executions of writer and campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 Ogoni men. 8:00 – 10:30am, VIGIL at SHELL, Shell Centre, Waterloo, London, SE1 7NA Gather...
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Colonising the Climate March
I went to the Climate March in London -a 50,000 strong triumph – so the organisers say. It was cold literally and otherwise and I walked through the march feeling like an outsider until I got to the...
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The Vengeance of Moko
Dear Mr. Eustace In 2015 I had the opportunity to work with Trini/British artist Zak Ové to install two eight foot moko jumbie sculptures in the Great Court of the British Museum. It was the...
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On Being a Pagan
My first awareness of Lord Shiva came from the late Iyalorisha Melvina Rodney. She kept a large framed image of Him in the inner sanctum of her shrine, between Ogun’s cutlass and Yemoja’s wooden boat...
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Help Haitians, not the Disaster Capitalists
Disaster time again, for our sisters and brothers in Haiti. Already the vultures circle, using this tragedy as another opportunity to take advantage or worse, to engage in the pornography of suffering...
View ArticleInside the healing house
After the 2010 earthquake a small house was made out of rubble, wood and glass bottles. There is an altar and the sun filtered through the walls of blue, green bottles bathes the inside of the house in...
View ArticleDiscussions, Performances, Street Parade for 2018 Ogun Festival October 5-7
A new play written by Eintou Pearl Springer on the Orisa Ogun will be part of the programme for this year’s Ogun Festival, a three day festival celebration of the Yoruba deity Ogun at the Ile Isokan...
View ArticleDear Media People, a few things about Obeah that Trevor Sayers can’t tell you
1. Many spiritual systems across the world believe that plants, animals, stones, wood, trees, geographical locations etc have an energy frequency and that you can use these to move yourself or others...
View ArticleAct like a moko jumbie.
Why, in the past ten years, have we seen a resurgence of the moko jumbie? It can’t just be that we like to see people walking on stilts. Maybe this is the mas we need the most now. It is ancient memory...
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