Araba Ifayemi Elebuibon

Ifayemi Elebuibon, born in 1947 in Osogbo, Nigeria, is a babalawo, a priest of Ifá, the Yoruba tradition of divination and sacred verse. He began learning Ifá at the age of four and became a babalawo in 1967, following a family line in which his maternal grandfather held the title of Araba, chief Ifá priest of Osogbo. A poet, writer and linguist who publishes in Yoruba and English, he teaches about Ifá and Yoruba culture in Nigeria and the United States, including at Obafemi Awolowo University and San Francisco State University.