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We're Telling African stories.Oriire spotlights mythology, history and food from different African Cultures and across the diaspora.
The Ojude Oba Festival is an annual celebration by the Ijebu-Yoruba people that blends Islamic faith, Yoruba kingship, and traditional culture to honor the Awujale. It reinforces communal identity and heritage through age-grade processions, music, dance, regalia, and horse-riding displays.
The film Sinners (2025) explores the relationship between African diaspora spirituality, ancestral presence, and African traditional religions. It examines how these elements intersect, reflect, and reinterpret indigenous African belief systems in contemporary contexts.
Death isn't the end—it's just the beginning of an incredible journey home. This article will take us through the world of Yorùbá Ìsìnkú practices and taboos, where funeral rites aren't just about saying goodbye but about ensuring safe passage through the afterlife.
In this episode, we speak to Fatima about jinns in Northern Nigeria.
Listen to Sesi and Haleemah discuss the extent to which culture should be preserved.
Anansi the trickster is a West African God. He often takes the shape of a spider and is considered to be the god of all knowledge of stories.
Kintu is a mythological figure who appears in a creation myth of the Baganda people of Buganda, Uganda. According to this legend, Kintu was the first person on earth and the first man to wander the plains of Uganda alone.
In this episode, Sesi and Haleemah speak to Mamokone about South African food.
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