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Guide to the eighteen files in the festivals section, examining royal renewals, masquerade complexes, ancestral commemorations, agrarian rites, and urban spectacles across Yorubaland.
An exhaustive scholarly account of the annual Ọ̀ṣun-Òṣogbo festival, its foundational origin traditions, liturgical stages, ritual offices, conservation challenges, and scholarly debates.
The premier annual state ritual of Ilé-Ifẹ̀, commemorating the cosmogonic dawn of creation, renewing the covenant of the sacred monarchy, and venerating the divinity Ògún.
A comprehensive scholarly analysis of Ojúde Ọba in Ìjẹ̀bú-Òde, covering its nineteenth-century Islamic origins, royal liturgical sequence, age-grade societies, martial equestrianism, and contemporary socio-economic profile.
A scholarly account of the annual ten-day Ṣàngó Festival in Ọ̀yọ́, examining its liturgical calendar, priestly offices, historical origins, theological schisms, and modern global heritage status.
A comprehensive scholarly examination of Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ masquerade performance, its cosmological veneration of female mystical power, ritual structure, iconography, origin traditions, and contemporary heritage status.
An exhaustive scholarly analysis of the Yoruba Egúngún festival, detailing ritual choreography, institutional offices, origin historiography, typological variants, and contemporary tourism dynamics.
An annual seventeen-day royal festival in Ọ̀wọ̀ commemorating Queen Ọ̀rọ́nsẹ̀n, characterized by iron gongs, the complete prohibition of drums, and cross-gender royal regalia.
The annual Yorùbá festival of Ifá divination, renewal of cosmological covenants, communal prognostication, and royal patronage.
A scholarly examination of the Adamu Orisha Play of Lagos, detailing its mortuary ritual programme, deity conclaves, origin traditions, and contemporary socio-spatial dynamics.
An examination of the week-long festival commemorating the founder of the Oyo Empire, detailing its historical traditions, ritual officiants, performance genres, and modern institutionalization.
An annual seven-day ritual drama and civic purification festival in Ilé-Ifẹ̀ commemorating Queen Mọ̀remí Àjàsorò and expelling communal misfortune through the Tẹlẹ̀ scapegoat rite.
An annual multi-day ritual reenactment in Ile-Ife dramatizing the primordial political conflict, exile, and reconciliation between the indigenous Obatala faction and the incoming Oduduwa dynasty.
An extensive study of Ọdún Ọba, the royal festival celebrating monarchical renewal, civic allegiance, ancestral intercession, and agricultural transition across Yoruba polities.
An extensive scholarly examination of the Yoruba New Yam Festival (Ọdún Ìjẹsù), its ritual liturgy, agricultural theology, regional variations, and contemporary civic transformations.
The premier annual federalizing ritual and festival of the Ìjẹ̀bú kingdom, uniting sixteen territorial priest-masqueraders under the spiritual leadership of Tami Ònìrè and the political patronage of the Awujalẹ̀.
The premier annual sacred kingship and religious festival in Ilé-Ifẹ̀, celebrating the deity Ògún, the creation of the cosmic order, and the renewal of the Ọ̀ọ̀ni's divine mandate.
A comprehensive scholarly examination of the sacred ritual calendar, origin traditions, ceremonial offices, and festival cycles of Ọ̀tùn Ẹkìtì in Mobaland.
The institutional history, liturgical programme, sacerdotal hierarchy, and modern transformations of the annual ancestral masquerade festival among the Ọ̀yọ́ Yorùbá.