Owambe is a lavish and flamboyant party thrown by Nigerians which is usually characterized by a show of luxury, lavish spending, colour, extravaganza, paparazzi, lots of food, music, dance and networking. The origin is in Western Nigeria, particularly the Yoruba culture.

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Her name is Yoruba, but they call her "GOON". SHE kills her abusive father...purposely. When she's all grown up, SHE soon finds herself on the wrong side of the law, but the right side of justice. Ironic.

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une illustration pour le de ce weekend, sur un article de l'écrivain nigérian Wole Soyinka sur sa collection d'art Yoruba https://t.co/PB7CYqFVqW

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Yoruba people calls it Ororo😅, they have lost the grip they had on us... we will see this to the very end.

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Ancient Ife Kingdom And It's Civilization
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Ife (aka Ile-Ife) was an ancient African city which flourished between the 11th and 15th century CE in what is today Nigeria in West Africa. Ife was the capital and principal religious centre of the Yoruba people.

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Meet Ayomide ✨ ⁣
Ayomide is a Yoruba name that means my joy has come. She is beautiful, confident and caring, ⁣

Origin: Nigeria. ⁣

Tag someone called Ayomide. What other names would you like to see? ⁣

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Initial design inspiration and architecture DNA. I tried to extract abstract shapes form the Lightbox logo and merged that with Traditional Yoruba architecture, Wasn't so successful but I did learn a ton these past few weeks.

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Progress shot on OBOKUN (THE BIG FISH)
oil on canvas.
Obokun is a yoruba language used to address fishes that are bigger in sizes compared to their usual. Due to their glowing textured skin and extra sizes, they tend to catches buyers attention

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Did a re-draw of some year-old work! Changed her from "Kadiatou" to "Aja"; I felt that she would best serve as a rendition of the goddess Aja of the African Yoruba mythology!

Check out my IG for Aja's story!

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Progress shot on OBOKUN (THE BIG FISH)
oil on canvas.
Obokun is a yoruba language used to address fishes that are bigger in sizes compared to their usual. Due to their glowing textured skin and extra sizes, they tend to catches buyers attention and at the same time special to

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What if Storm great ancestor is Yemaya? Her children Oya controlled wind and Shango was God of thunder in Yoruba mythology.

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"Jicho la Dhoruba (Eye of the Storm)" I drew Angela Bassett as because I've always thought that she's the perfect person to play her, especially in a stand-alone movie.

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📣 CONSIGUE YA «DADA» 📣
Una obra de fantasía y aventuras centrada en el panteón de la mitología africana yoruba.
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✍️ Fer Jiménez, &
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For those that don't know, Iyanu, in Yoruba, means Wonder. And that is exactly what this Kickstarter campaign has been. A wonder... Today is the last day to grab a SIGNED copy of Iyanu - Child of Wonder volume 1

Click here to order: https://t.co/theXRUDhP9

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Ọ̀ṣun
The second wife of the Yoruba powerful deity ṣàngó.

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