Yoruba Mythology: Stories of the Orisa from West Africa and the Diaspora (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780762485475)

Ayodeji Ogunnaike, PhD, is the Assistant Professor of African Religions and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in the Globalization of Yoruba Mythology and African Religion at McGill University. His research focuses mostly on Yoruba oriṣa worship in Nigeria but also addresses Islam in Africa, Christianity in Africa, and diaspora religions--Brazilian Candomblé in particular. He studied Ifa divination with a high priest and diviner in Nigeria and has a keen interest in Indigenous African conceptions of divinity and mythology. He is the author of Forms of Worship: How Oriṣa Worship Became Religion in Nigeria and Brazil (Duke University Press, 2026), and he lives in Montreal, Canada.
Oludamini Ogunnaike, PhD, is the Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy at the University of Virginia. His research examines the philosophical and artistic dimensions of postcolonial, colonial, and pre-colonial Islamic and Indigenous religious traditions of West and North Africa, especially Sufism and Ifa. He is the author of Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions (Penn State University Press, 2020), winner of the Outstanding First Book Prize of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), and Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: A Study of West African Madīḥ Poetry and Its Precedents (Islamic Texts Society, 2020). He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Data Oruwari, also known as "The Ancestors' Scribe," is a Nigerian-born, Virginia-based visionary artist whose work channels divine intelligence and ancestral wisdom. Working primarily in pen and ink and gold leaf, her iconographic style, marked by meticulous detail and symbolic depth, explores Afro-spiritual cosmology and the interconnectedness of the spiritual and material realms. She lives in Virginia.