One of the more intriguing albums issued in the first half of 2011, Animation's Asiento (RareNoise, 2011), has now begotten one of the best sets of the latter part of the year. Agemo is itself a ...

There is a strong belief that a surreptitious glance by any woman is instant death; a glance from any hidden place is instant death; no one must wear cap when an Alagemo is around”, among others. This ...

The Agemo cult is one of the highly regarded cults by Ijebu indigenes of Ogun State. They are sub-divided into two groups: Ijebu and Ijebu Remo that cover towns, such as Epe, Shagamu, Ijebuode, and ...

The 2025 Agemo Festival in Ijebuland has been scheduled to hold on Tuesday, July 1, with the traditional Agemo masquerade dances expected to follow on Wednesday, July 2. The sacred masquerades are ...

This collection is comprised of 769 35mm color slides, dates from 1982 to 1986 and documents various Agemo festivals, a performing art of the Yoruba religion. More specifically, Pemberton photographed ...

The Ijebu are devotedly attached to their culture and no year passes by without them congregating to celebrate Agemo, one of the enduring legacies of their forebears. ADEBISI ONANUGA examines why the ...

Something like a desecration of the culture and the definition of the Ijebu people of Nigeria occurred last weekend. And the entire Ijebu nation is understandably alarmed and angry, especially now ...

With the African film industry experiencing a massive point-of-view switch over the last decade, the space is beginning to experience more African stories being told by indigenous writers and ...

The residents of the area reportedly woke up to a rude shock on Saturday, April 12, 2025, when they discovered that the golden Agemo statue commissioned about 21 years ago had been removed. Meanwhile, ...

The Ogun State police command on Sunday, said the suspect who allegedly tried to steal and cart away the Agemo statue at Itoro junction, Ijebu ode, is alive and not dead. The command added that the ...

This year, activities in Ijebuland came to a halt as educational, religious, social and economic activities were paralysed during the annual Agemo Festival. Vanguard gathered that while some students ...