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OmoEkofa (Young girl who studies Ifa Philosophy)


11 year young Awo of Babalawo of northern Oyo State, Nigeria, reciting Ifa poetry from the Ifa Corpus (students start studying at 4yrs old). It is worthy to note that Ifa is still very much an Ancient Oral poetic form (very little has been written to date) of restating Ifa's stanzas of historical, philosophical, practical, curative and healing messages, as they have been stated and restanted for thousands of years among the Yoruba in West Africa and has, recently, as a result of the Maafa (transatlantic slave trade) of enslaved Yoruba people found in the diaspora namely Cuba, Brazil, Trinidad, Surinam, Guyana, Haiti and now throughout most of the world. The root was among the Yoruba of West Africa, these ancient stories spoken in poetic form often using parables, was the root of African proverbs common today, that would deliver messages onto themsleves. It is also very notable that as said Ifa is an Oral art form and is taught to children orally and retain into memory, this girl is only 11 years old and can recite many stories from memory, also to note that she is a female and to dispel the myth (in the diaspora) that girls do not study Ifa, but shown here she is orally reciting Ifa stanzas and the response from others is to also learn that Ifa stanza.

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: September 29, 2006 at 10:08 pm
Author: omorisa

Length: 00:51
Rating: 4.53
Views: 51930

Tags: ancient  ATR  Ifa  knowledge  nigeria  Olodumare  philosophy  poetry  religion  wisdom  yoruba  

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Hyphy00 (August 26, 2008 at 8:25 am)
What is Ifa Philosophy?
reymysteriorules14 (July 18, 2008 at 8:44 am)
Oturaniko 14 , ashe iboru abure , im obetua in my ifa and totally agree with you , women shouldnt do there ifa and are banned , and plus even if women were allowed to do ifa they cant study before they go into ifa because orula will put them in osorbo , anyway way oluo iboru and i totally agree with you.
oturaniko14 (July 18, 2008 at 5:58 am)
excuse me but why are people marking me down , i am a balawo , baba ejiogbe , and im not talking out of my butt , women shouldnt do their ifa.
AwoIfaOgboni1 (July 13, 2008 at 7:50 pm)
i saw this video on OrisunAye(dot)Org
casanovaMIA1 (June 2, 2008 at 12:21 am)
Alot of westernized awos would not comprohend pre-colonial Ifa and its counterpart Afa in Africa where women are Ifa or Afa priest since time unrecorded by post colonial influence upon our great black tradition.
dancint (April 2, 2008 at 1:41 pm)
Thank you for this...how beautiful to see these children starting so young...I wish it was that way in the States. Our chidren need Ifa badly. Many blessings, Omilade
oturaniko14 (March 30, 2008 at 6:32 am)
what the heck , women arent supposed to study ifa ,
ayanifa (October 18, 2007 at 8:48 pm)
This is a girl I know, she is not an Iyanifa YET, we study first then go to Itefa, then study more, Iyanifa are like Babalawo who study Ifa not just do initiation then fail to study. I continue to study under my mentors direction and will do my own Itefa one day with him, but to study is important, eku se Baba mi
altopanavnzla (October 16, 2007 at 1:53 am)
Very good that women can be also Iyenifa and can read the okuele and perfom some Ifa rituals. In some parts of Venezuela women are not allowed to be Iyenifa...what an ignorance!
bacteriai264 (October 6, 2007 at 3:51 am)
Not bad. There are a lot of naked girls at _SWEETDATEZ.COM_ -bacteriai264

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