The demise of the Old Oyo Empire signalled a lull in the Yoruba economy ... began with the association with the Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe at the age of 20. Travelled to Haiti the same year ...

Multi-national footwear maker Bata Shoes has failed to stop its rival manufacturer from producing shoes similar to its Toughees brand popular among schoolchildren. Justice Josephine Mong’are ...

Not to mention maracas, triangles, gourds, bells, pairs of hardwood sticks (male and female) called claves, thumb pianos and other items that you hit or shake to make people dance and gods listen.

I saw this style but I never liked it being classical, so I decided to make my own style by contemporarising my indigenous style, majorly using the Yoruba bata dance as a vocabulary in co-mixing and ...

“I taught the pupils how to sing and dance to one of the popular songs in Yoruba Language: ‘Bàtà rẹ á ró ko ko kà/Bàtà rẹ á ró ko ko kà/Tí o bá kà wé rẹ/Bàtà rẹ á rọ́ ko ko kà….'” Akinropo said of his ...

Leader of the United Kingdom, UK, Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, says she identifies more with the Yoruba ethnic group than the Nigerian entity. Badenoch made this statement in an interview ...

Ojediwura Adelere is popular with the Yoruba art of chanting panegyrics ... and my elder siblings doing it and fell in love with Bata dance. I started following my father (my eldest brother ...

When we talk about footwear in India, Bata is likely one of the first names that pops into your head. It's a ubiquitous name associated closely with Indian culture. Yet, despite its local ...

Eva Despaigne, one of the show’s organizers said the women wanted to honor their male colleagues with dance and music ... They went ahead and created the group Obiní Batá, or Women Bata, in Yoruba ...

Yet, these were the ones on whom the Nigerian Army unleashed Python Dance and other ludicrously ... a leading activist among the Yoruba Nation advocates, have denied any knowledge of the ...