From Spain to Britain, Trinidad and Tobago, like much of the Caribbean, has a history of colonisation. That shared experience of occupation and near erasure was so brutal that its ripple effects are ...

On Sunday 21st September 2014 the Orisha community will celebrate their Festival for the Ocean- the Olokun Festival or Ase Odun Olokun- at Englishmans Bay in Tobago between Castara and Palatuvier from ...

Research in African Literatures, Vol. 40, No. 1, Oral Literature and Identity Formation in Africa and the Diaspora (Spring, 2009), pp. 127-136 (10 pages) This paper discusses two bodies of songs from ...

Attillah Springer attends the wake of Baba Sam, priest of the Orisas: “Baba Sam would have wanted music and laughter, and Mother V confirms that that is the case, that he warned her before he went his ...

The Orisha shrine Egbe Onisin Eledumare will celebrate the Orisha New Year or Odun Ijesu- the New Yam Festivalfromtomorrow to Sunday, January 1, 2013 at its International Headquarters at First Street, ...