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Naveem ConnectROOTS OF WISDOM: Understanding Yoruba and Ifá Spiritual TraditionsWhat if an ancient spiritual tradition held the key to navigating life’s biggest uncertainties? In this episode of Naveen Connect, we take an enlightening deep dive into Yoruba and Ifa spirituality—one of the most sophisticated spiritual frameworks ever developed.
Join hosts Jean and Humphrey as they explore the divine hierarchy, core principles, and the unique way Yoruba traditions view humanity’s relationship with the divine. With expert insights from Baba Jean Jerome Baudry, a practicing baba and priest, and Dr. Ayodeji Ogunnaike, an Assistant Professor of African Religions at McGill University, this episode unpacks how Ifa di...
2025-06-101h 05
Naveem ConnectMOVING FORWARD TOGETHER: Applying Yoruba Wisdom and Ifá Spiritual TraditionsHosts Jean and Humphrey continue their exploration of Yoruba and Ifá spiritual traditions, uncovering how divination, character development, and Orisha energies offer practical guidance for personal transformation and decision-making.
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Join esteemed guests Baba Jean Jerome Beaudry and Dr. Ayodeji Ogunnaike as they discuss the significance of the "Letter of the Year"—a divination ritual providing insight into challenges and opportunities shaping the months ahead. Discover how ruling Orishas, including Shango and Oshun, influence global affairs, personal growth, and spiritual balance.
Key Takeaways
Understanding the Letter of the Year and its rel...
2025-06-101h 15
Wellness CuratedThe Force of Geomancy: How the Earth Reveals Our DestinyImagine this: ancient traditions that can read the secrets of the earth, offering glimpses into the unseen forces shaping our lives. In this episode of Wellness Curated, Anshu Bahanda sits down with Dr Ayodeji Ogunnaike, a scholar who’s spent years studying African and Afro-diasporic religions, to talk about geomancy—a mystical practice that feels like it’s straight out of another world.Dr Ogunnaike shares stories that will leave you in awe, like diviners who can predict someone’s destiny without being told a thing, or how these age-old practices reveal cosmic patterns that guide us in ways...
2024-12-2636 min
Reimagining Black Relations#57 Force without JusticeProf. Ayodeji Ogunnaike, an assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College is of Nigerian descent, specifically of the Yoruba tribe. His research and teaching centers around the religious traditions of Africa and the African diaspora including Christianity, Islam, and indigenous African traditions, particularly Yoruba oriṣa worship in Nigeria and Candomblé in Brazil. He juxtaposed several African religions with the major western religions. He further elaborated on diversified oppression, emphasized how racism is akin to sin if not sin, and the counter-effectiveness of flawed tools being used to overcome racism.
2022-02-1243 min
Path & Present w/Baraka Blue#054: Awakening in the Dream: Ibn Arabi, Virtual Reality & Ultimate Reality w/ Oludamini OgunnaikeOludamini Ogunnaike holds a PhD in African Studies and the Study of Religion from Harvard University, and is Assistant Professor of African Religious Thought at the University of Virginia.
Oludamini Ogunnaike is a scholar of African, Islamic, and Religious Studies, with a focus on the intellectual and artistic dimensions of West African Sufism and Ifa, an indigenous Yoruba religious tradition. His work examines the postcolonial, colonial, and precolonial Islamic and indigenous religious traditions of West Africa, seeking to understand the philosophical dimensions of these traditions by approaching them and their proponents not merely as sources of ethnographic or historical data...
2020-08-291h 36