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Mar 18, 2023 · I grew up in a small town called Akure and at that time I didn’t know it, but it’s actually one of the best places for one to grow up. It’s a quiet town that gives you a different perspective to life than what you see in Lagos.
Adéjuyìgbé is a Nigerian surname of Yoruba origin, typically bestowed upon males. It means "Royalty has prevented honour from being wasted/destroyed.". [1] Adéjuyìgbé is a powerful name with depth and profound meaning. This name is common among the Ondo people of the Southwest, Nigeria.
Apr 15, 2017 · Oba Adejuyigbe Adefunmi of Oyotunji African Village, Southern Carolina, United States of America in this interview with Adeola Balogun and Ademola Olonilua speaks about his community....
Jun 26, 2019 · Growing up, Adejuyigbe’s main music influence was his parents’ record collection, which included Nigerian Afrobeat, KC and the Sunshine Band, and, in particular, Earth, Wind & Fire.
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One muggy Sunday morning in April, a man named Boku rakes the rectangular, earthen courtyard that sits between the temples of Obatala and Shango, the Orisha deities of paternal wisdom and virile kingship. A middle-aged black man with sharp features and a wiry goatee, wearing a pristine white robe and turban that don’t quite cover the various pharao...
Sometime in 2005, Oba Adejuyigbe Adefunmi II, the 14th of founding Oba Efuntola Oseijeman Adelabu Adefunmi I’s 22 children, was on his way to work in Key West, Florida, when he got the call that his father had died. He’d known from childhood that he was destined to be the next Oba of Oyotunji, yet eager to experience the rest of the world, he’d mov...
Sitting around the Kola Nut Kafe, the village’s social hub, the Oba and the town’s residents have convened to discuss community issues and their tasks for the day. In the first Oba’s time, daily duties would have trickled down via his layered, bureaucratic machine. But these meetings, in a way the essence of the new Oba’s leadership style, are all ...
Why these modern seekers, or even the village’s first generation, would choose to embrace Orisha spiritualism as their escape from the mainstream remains opaque to many outsiders. According to those who’ve lived in the village for some time, the story of the rise of Yoruba traditions as a viable alternative to modern American life begins back in th...
The community got off to a rocky start, as rumors spread in nearby towns that these strange new neighbors would abduct visitors and might even practice cannibalism. But despite persistent whispers about occult practices, the community has since established solid ties with the authorities and is recognized by the stateas a tax-exempt religious organ...
Although many people rushed down to Oyotunji with high hopes and a ready spirit of volunteerism, life in the village was tough. At the start they had no water or electricity, and they rapidly became overcrowded and strapped for food on their isolated plot of land. Some current residents believe the initial settlement focused too much on teaching re...
Everyone at Oyotunji today believes the village needs to change to address the shortcomings that led it down the road of decline in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Because while young black Americans face racial tensions shockingly similar to those their ‘70s predecessors fled, they come from a very different world. “That’s why I feel that the ancestors are bri...
The Oba’s not certain that his vision of a cascading laboratory for nationwide hubs of sustainable, nurturing communities rooted in the Yoruba tradition will come to fruition. After all, although he’s playing with all sorts of projects from micro-gardens, to earthships and mud architecture, to solar power, Oyotunji is still far from sustainable. Ra...
Early life and education. Adejuyigbe was born in London in 1992 to Nigerian parents and lived in the United Kingdom until he was five years old. [5] His family then moved to Dallas, Texas where he lived until moving to Los Angeles, California in 2013. [5][6] He has one younger sister named Temiloluwa.
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Porter and Adejuyigbe both grew up in Texas and moved to Los Angeles. Though they had previously met and corresponded (primarily through mutual friends, attendance at live screenings, and UCB shows), they were not close friends and episode 1 of their podcast was the first time they had recorded content together. [ 8 ]
