"Feast, " directed by Rufus Norris, is an exploration of Yoruba culture, written by five playwrights (Feb. 1-23).
The Yoruba man who was admired all over the country, but whose election was cancelled by General Babangida?
One set of bookshelves was lined with dictionaries of Yoruba, Latvian, Basque, Hausa, and more than three dozen other languages.
For the fiercely self-regarding Yorubas, General Obasanjo, one of their number, has committed what is for them the ultimate sin he rejects Yoruba nationalism.
President Olusegun Obasanjo, a Yoruba Christian from southern Nigeria who has nonetheless won the trust of many northern Muslims, certainly thinks that way.
President Obasanjo ordered the arrest of the Yoruba leaders.
Moreover, the president is a westerner, already under political attack in the north, where many feel that he is favouring his own Yoruba people at the expense of Nigeria's other ethnic groups.
He is a devotee of Santeria, the Yoruba-based religion that slave traders brought form Nigeria to Cuba in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and regularly plays at ceremonies in homes in the Bronx and Brooklyn.
His painting "Negro Masks" (1932) is displayed in the exhibition with the two sculptures that inspired the painting, a Yoruba Gelede helmet-mask from Nigeria and a Bwa mask from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, arranged on a Kuba textile.
The Gelede takes place every year after the harvests, at important events and during drought or epidemics and is characterized by carved masks, dances and chants, sung in the Yoruba language and retracing the history and myths of the Yoruba-Nago people.
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