Senegal’s Mourides: Islam’s mystical entrepreneurs
Many of the street vendors commonly seen in Italy, France and Spain selling sunglasses, bags and souvenirs are members of a highly industrious, entrepreneurial branch of Sufi Islam, which has […]
Category Archives: Spirituality
Gay Nigerians targeted as ‘un-African’
Despite evidence of homosexual customs pre-dating the colonial era, intolerant laws are flourishing across Africa. Abuja, Nigeria – Fourteen years ago, at the age of 19, Ifeanyi Orazulike could no […]
Haitian Artist Fights To Preserve The Vodou Religion
“They beat me in the name of Jesus,” Josué sings in one song. “They burn me in the name of Jesus.” The lyrics of this old vodou song date back […]
After God Is The Condom: Sexual Health In Nigeria
Bassey Ngehaje does not have a problem using condoms. When that moment approaches, when he’s aroused in the company of an alluring woman, Bassey pulls out a condom and puts […]
African Homosexual Demon
This is not an essay. A few days ago, Kenyan novelist, Wainaina Binyavanga, tweeted a set of remarks he called “a brief scientific history of demons.” Aaron Bady of New Inquiry compiled and edited them into […]
Yoruba Deities Re-visited
Photographer and Noire 3000 Studios CEO, James Lewis’s presents: The Orisha Experience. This is his photography collection of artistic interpretation of Yoruba deities James C. Lewis James C. Lewis James […]
African Traditional Religions, The Elephant In The Room
Many Africans in one way or another have paid a visit to a traditional priest at some point in their lives in search of divine intervention. Do you remember the […]
The Expression Of The Sacred In Igbo Culture
“Anyanwu rie asaa kwuru, Ala ejiri Edeuli kwado ya” If the Sun consumes seven and survives, The Earth will back it with Uli expressions” —Igbo Mystical Axiom The nature of […]
Black Americans Undergo Cleansing From ‘Slavery Stigma’
It took a trip to Africa to change 10 lives forever. Six months after Irene Toland, Sidney Davis, Robin Almeida and Pamela Ramsay joined a group traveling to Africa, the […]
Release Her Power
She brings you into this world in a flush of blood. Divining with the gods with each forceful thrust, shrieking into the hands of the invisibles. Burdened to dim her […]
Afrocentric Confessions 