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A documented history of the process by which Yorùbá religion was reframed as satanic, from the missionary encounter through colonial vocabulary, Nigerian Pentecostalism and Nollywood, followed by what the tradition actually holds.

Why a Yoruba dancer has to understand drum language, the aesthetic of dancing hot with a cool face, and the line from the Alarinjo masque theatre through Ogunde, Ladipo and Ogunmola to Nollywood.

Hubert Ògúndé and the Yoruba travelling theatre, Dúró Ládipọ̀, Kọ́lá Ògúnmọ́lá and Baba Sala, the film line from Ọlá Balógun to Túndé Kèlání and Kúnlé Afọláyan, and the visual artists from Lámídì Fákẹ́yẹ and the Òṣogbo school to Yinka Shonibare.

How the oral genres feed juju, fuji, ewi and Afrobeats, how film and theatre use them, what is actually being lost, and what archives and projects exist to hear the material.

How Pentecostal deliverance theology drives the physical destruction of shrines, how Nollywood turned that theology into a visual formula that shaped what a generation believes traditional religion looks like, and how diaspora money and status are simultaneously rebuilding the prestige Pentecostalism tore down.