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Drum, song and the ones who came before
Traditions of Africa & the Diaspora
Ifá, Candomblé, Haitian Vodou, Santería, Gnawa, zār and mbira: traditions in which drum, song and ceremony bring the spirits and the ancestors near.
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Wande Abimbola
Wande Abimbola, born in 1932 in Oyo, Nigeria, is a scholar of Yoruba language and literature and a babalawo, consecrated as an Ifá priest in 1971. In 1981 the Ooni of Ife installed him as Àwísẹ Awo Àgbàyé, spokesperson for Ifá and Yoruba religion in the world. He served as vice-chancellor of the University of Ife from 1982 to 1989, has taught at universities in Nigeria and the United States, including Harvard and Amherst, and has written widely on the sacred verses of Ifá, among them "Ifá Divination Poetry". He founded the Ifa Heritage Institute and presides over the International Congress of Orisa Tradition and Culture.
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