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How the collapse of Ọ̀yọ́ and the wars that followed fed the last decades of the Atlantic trade, why so many Yoruba ended up in Cuba and Brazil, and what returned.
Why Yoruba religion is so visible in the Americas, why the answer is timing rather than numbers, and how a late arrival into two late-abolishing societies produced unusually intact institutional transmission.
The history and structure of Yoruba-derived religion in Cuba, from the cabildos de nación to the modern casa-templo, including initiation, Ifá, diloggún, the saint correspondences and the traditions it is wrongly conflated with.
How Yoruba dishes such as akara and moin-moin became acaraje and other Atlantic-world foods, and how the sacred kitchens of Candomble and Lucumi keep them alive today, from Bahian street vendors to Michelin-starred restaurants in London.
A comprehensive analysis of Cuban Regla de Ocha (Lucumí), covering its institutional evolution from West African models, ritual structures, divination systems, demographics, and major scholarly debates.
An analysis of the historical formation, ritual structure, demographic landscape, and theoretical debates surrounding Lucumí religion and its divergence from West African Yorùbá practice in contemporary Cuba.
The organology, ensemble hierarchy, speech surrogacy, and sacred history of the Yorùbá bàtá drum across West African and transatlantic contexts.