a. Ogun – god of Iron

b. Esu – god of trouble

c. Sango – god of thunder

d. Obatala – god of

e. Obaluaye – god of the universe

f.  Olomolu – god of

g. Ifa – god of peace

h. Iyemoja – god of peace

i.  Egungun – god of masquerades

j. Agemo – god of chameleon

k. Igunuko - god of

l.  Osanyin – god of herbs

m. Oro – god of

n.  Osun – god of rivers

OGUN:-  If you want to worship through Ogun to seek God favour , blessing and victory e.t.c.  The worshiper will provide one big cork , cola, bitter cola, palm oil, roasted yam, roasted maize hot drink (alcoholic) , water, Palm wine, snail , tortoise, male dog, offering all the items to Ogun with your prayer. It is Ogun priest that will direct the affair and Ogun in return will carry your request to God and you should be expecting a good result.

IFA:- This is another disciple of God in Africa. Ifa is a  foreteller or a visionary. Ifa could tell you about your past, present and what the future will look like. Prayers are made through Ifa to God to solve whatever problems you have, you will have to offer the following before you can talk to Ifa:- Alcoholic hot drink, Pig, pigeon, Ram, Cola, Bitter cola in addition to whatever Ifa directed you to present, but it is not a difficult thing to do , Ifa never directed anybody to do evil nor face a difficult task, a priest of Ifa will put everything in order.

ESU:- This is normally found very near Ogun temple. They are always together because the are friends abd they work together but they take their offer separately. Esu normally take Goat, Cork, Water, Palm-oil, Cola, Bitter-cola.

OSANYIN: is also a disciple of God . He speaks out openly to people in his temple. He is a vissioner and he reveals past , present and future. The different between Ifa and Osanyin is that Ifa priest will watch Odu Ifa and interprint to people what Ifa say and what to do, but in the case of Osanyin, Osanyin will speak out openly for people to hear what is saying clearly no interpretation, Osanyin Prist will only guide or assist who ever Osanyin is talking to according Osanyin  instruction.

ORO: is a very strong disciple of God. It is forbidding for woman to enter into ORO Temple, This disciple is used to appease diseases spirit in case epidemic brakeout in a city or any bad diseases. The elderly men will go to Oro temple and offer prayers and they will announce to the whole city that people should stay indoor between 11.p.m and 5.a.m especially women young and old. Then  people will inform their relations out-side the city to note the time, and not to come into the city within the said hour. ORO will come into the city and everybody will feel his presence. It  doesn’t enter into people’s house, it would only parade the city. If any girl or woman regardless of his age peeped at ORO no matter how perfect or clever, she would die. This activity might lasted for either a day, 3 days, 7 days and it might be up to 21 days. After  the parade, the epidemic or any type of diseases it might be will clear off and there will be peace in the city. The disciples of God in Africa are thousands with different names and different tribes. We only pick few from Yoruba tribe in Nigeria. These disciples have their specific period in a year that their followers used to come from all parts of the world.

·        OSUN/ IYEMOJA: This is a spirit of River. The sacrificial  period is in the Month of August. People all over the world used to come for this festival because people believe in it very well. There must be rain during the festival. The festival is very colourful. During the occasion a big fish usually comes up to the bank of the River. This fish is a symbol of the spirit of the Osun/Yemoja  disciple. At the instant of emerging of this big fish from the water everybody around must be praying asking for whatever you want at that particular year. Surely you will get the answer to your prayer.

If you need detail information on any of the God disciples in Africa, contact us, we furnish you with more information.

MONARCH: The Monarch system was in order before the visitation of the Western World into Africa. We have our Kings, and other Chiefs in place. The palace administration in place. The chiefs are the law makers while the king (Oba)  will approve the laws, they also have police, they are called (Akoda) in Yoruba language, they always be in the palace, they are  to invite and to arrest whoever reports been brought to the palace. They are also in charge of the prison. Every case is being prosecuted in the palace after council of chiefs might have decided their judgement on the case been deliver to the king (Oba) who will look into the mater  and pronounced his judgement openly of which nobody could change again. It comes and it stays, that is the reason why Yoruba tribe used to call  king as (Alase Ekeji Orisa Oke) means king is next to God. Whatever judgement made by the king is the final, whatever king say is in order. If you are to summon somebody into the palace, you will present all the following to the king: palm wine, goat, out locally made hot drink (Alcoholic), alligator pepper, bitter cola, cola, and some cowries be added.  After the judgement of the case whoever found guilty will face the wrath of the law to be decided by the chiefs and delivered by the king. Our king wear crown locally and traditionally made, the beads on their neck and on the beads on their neck and on the two head, the wears locally made embroidly (Aso-Oke) and they also wear shoe made of animal skin with horse tail in their hands. When a king is going out, he would be accompanied by (Akoda) local police security. Our king do ride on horses. Yearly every family must pay royalty to the king by giving a certain percentage of his farm product to the  king.

EDUCATION: The Africans have their various pattern of  Education. The money they spent after the era of trade by batter were cowries. they have their native ways of counting their money, and what ever worth counting , For example in Yoruba tribe One (1) (one) means    (Ookan)

2. (Two)     (Eeji)

3. (Three)   (Eeta)

 4. (Four)    (Eerin)

 5. (Five)     (Aarun)

 10. (Ten)         (Eewa)

 20  (Twenty)   (Ogun)

 30   (Thirty)     (Ogbon),

100   (Hundred)   (Ogorun), etc

COMMUNICATION: Africans have their ways of communicating with each other before the visitation of the Western World into Africa.

Love Communication: For example, if a man love’s a lady or a woman loves a man, he or she would pull out one long string of his or her hair from his or her head, and small out of his or her nail from  two tolls and put it in a leaf and tie it with rope and send it to the opposite sex.  When he or she received the parcel and open it to see the content, it means that the sender loves the person from head to toll with all his or her heart.

To Fight war: If you want to fight somebody or wage war with a community, one would cut a leaf, put gun powder in the leaf tie it with rope then send it to the person or the head of that community.

To end war: If you put alligator pepper, or bitter cola, cola, in a leaf and you tie it and send it to somebody the person knew that you are seeking his or her favour to end a war. You are appealing to him to seize  fire, to allow the war to rest. It is also a symbol of good views, peace and appreciation, etc. The message you mean to send  will determine what you are sending to the person in Nigeria culture. We call this method of communication (Aroko). Every tribes in Africa has their own method of communication.

SOCIAL GATHERING: Traditional marriage in every part of Africa is highly interesting. Traditional marriage involves the couples to put on traditional clothes e.g. Aso-Oke or Adire etc depending on the tribe they belong to. The couple will put beads to march with the clothes. The elders will break the cola, bitter cola, alligator pepper, Original honey,  locally made alcoholic drink, palm wine, and they will offer prayers, before the couple are join together.  The Bride must have settled all the request of the lady to be married e.g. boxes of traditional dresses for the new wedded wife, beads of various type of shoes,  yam tubers, goat or ram, bush meat, fresh fishes, smoke fishes, money, etc, plus any other request that might come from the lady’s family. The groom’s family will look into what the Bride brought according to their request before they were joined together as husband and wife. The Bride will come with different envelopes containing money, and an envelope to the father of the Groom to be married and one to the mother, Head of the family, all the wives in the family, all the children in the family, and other recognized member of the family.

 MARRIAGE PROCEDURES: Introduction of the Groom  is done in the Bride family’s house, the Bride’s father, mother, friends, members of her family and well wishers will be there, while the Groom will come with his father, mother, members of his family, friends and well wishers into the gathering. The father of  the Bride will ask her daughter who are these people, the lady will answer, they are the families of my Groom she heartedly wanted to marry as husband. She will then be asked to point her husband among the people sitting down, after this is done then the man will stand up and prostrate. The lady’s father will query her daughter: Does anybody enforcing you to marry this man? .She will say no, then he asked again; are  you  telling  your family today that if we grant this marriage, you will not disgrace us by coming to this family to inform us that you want to divorce him and remarry to another man?.  she will say no. The Bride’s father will then turn his question to the Groom: Mr. Man, Who are you? He will mention his name. What do you do for living? he will say his work. Why are you here? he will reply. I came here because of my proposed wife (her name), do you love her? he will say yes, does any body enforcing you to marry her,? he will say no, I love her. Are you telling us that you will never come here to tell us that you are not marring her again  because you have seen another beautiful lady?. He will say no, he will be instructed to sit down from where he prostrated or standing up. One member of the Bride’s family will now stand-up to introduce every member of the Bride’s family to the family of the Groom while all his families will stand up at once, and  men will prostrate women will go on their knees. They will thank the family of the lady, for receiving them to their family. The head of the Bride’s family will tell them to sit down. Somebody from the Groom’s family will pray for peace to reign between the two families and the couple. Then they will present what ever gift they have brought for the Bride and her entire family members. The head or any appointed person among the wives in the lady’s family will receive the gift, and the whole wives will thank them for the offer. They will now sit down for entertainment, cola will be broken by the elder of the lady’s family and pray for the marriage to be a successful one and peace to reign in the two families. Both families will pray in various ways for peace to reign among the couples and the two families. They will now be served with very delicious traditional food, e.g. palm wine and locally made alcoholic drink, the bitter cola, alligator pepper, cola broken for prayers will be eaten by everybody. After this, the oldest of the family wives from the Bride’s family will present the list of their request before the marriage is granted.  The requested items will go to his father in-law, the father in-law will consult the rest member of his family, they will sit down in a meeting and pick a date for the marriage ceremony. They will now pass the date to their in-law. On the marriage day, the couple will dance to traditional music. It is very interesting to witness a traditional marriage in Africa.

NAMING CEREMONY: When we have new born baby in Africa we name our child according to the family traditional set-up for such and it varies. Some name their newly born baby three months after the delivery while some named their child eight months after the delivery. On the naming day, the father of the child will present:- cola nut, bitter cola, alligator pepper, water, salt, honey, locally made alcoholic drink. The elder in the family will pray with the items and named the child. Each of this items has a symbols for prayer. For example: The cola nut will pull away sudden death from the child and his or her life will be full with joy and sweetness like that of salt and honey,

Water will be used to pray thus: Has water has no enemy, the child will overcome every power of enemies.

Alligator pepper will be used to pray thus: Has there are many seeds inside alligator pepper  the new born baby’s children will fill his/her house and he/she will be very fruitful.

As the prayer are been said, the name of the child will be mentioned. If the birth of the baby is a normal delivery, the father of the baby will determine the name to be given to the child but if the delivery has a very special remark, the very special remark will determine his/her name.

TYPES OF BABY

For example, if a baby is born with his/her placenta rolled round his/her neck in Yoruba tribe, the child’s name is AINA.

If a child is delivered with two legs coming out from the mother’s womb before the head comes out such a child is called IGE,

A baby delivered with her mother never  experiencing menstruation is called ILORI.

If you delivered  baby twins, the first one to come out is called TAIWO, while the second baby is called KEHINDE.

A baby born into the family of a drummer is called AYANDELE, AYANTOLU, AYANTOLA, Ayan means drummer. Ayandele means drummer has return home, Ayantolu means drummer is an hero, Ayantola means drumming is wealth, e.t.c.

A baby born into Ifa disciple family could be named, IFAKOREDE, IFASEGUN, IFATOYOSI, IFATUSI.  Ifakorede means Ifa has brought good luck, Ifasegun means, Ifa has won victory, and Ifatoyosi means in Ifa worth joy, e.t.c.

A baby born into the royal family “ADE” will be added on to his or her name. Ade means crown, ADELEKAN, ADEBAYO, (ADEFOLARERA if a girl), Adelekan means foundation of crown, Adebayo, means crown has joy, while Adefolarera means crown dwelling in wealth e.t.c. If all this traditional names were not observed when a baby is delivered, the baby might not be successful in life. He/She will be going from one problem to the other. It is a thing of interest to witness traditional naming ceremony in Africa. The method of naming and the appropriate names to be used  in Yoruba tribe in Nigeria.

ENTERTAINMENT: Africans has their various ways of entertainment, in various tribe, different types of dances, different types of drums, different types of delicious African dishes. e.t.c. In the area of drums you have Gangan, Iya ilu, Orele, Bata, Molo, Bembe, Agogo, Sekere, e.t.c. The method of dancing to the various drums varies.  All the drums mentioned here are from Yoruba tribe in Nigeria and you will still have so many drums and dancies in various tribe of Africa, we can not reflect all the tribes here, but on request we will furnish you with any form of entertainment any area in Africa.

TOURISM: Africa has various admirable areas that worth visiting. One of it is Olumo Rock in Abeokuta and so many other places of interest across the thirty six (36) states in Nigeria. We have Badagry Beach, we have Lekki beach, slavery market building in Badagry, where you will see how Nigerians were being transported to Europe for slavery. The iron chain used are still there. Olumo rock is the rock that the people hide themselves during Kiriji war and they were not hurt, the rock that has space like rooms under it and other exciting things that worth witnessing e.g. the said Olumo rock on the tale pick of it, there water is gushing out as if water pipe is fixed there and it has been like that since the genesis of the world. The kiriji war earlier mentioned was the time when western world ammunition was introduced into Nigeria in late 17^th century and early 18^th century.