Black Is King is a love letter to the African diaspora ... herself with flowers of fertility; she watches over children. She makes her connection to the goddess as explicit as possible ...

This year, as she has done for the past 35, she has come to the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove in southwestern Nigeria to celebrate Osun, the great Yoruba goddess of fertility and water. Others have ...

“It’s the will of God,” she explains ... “We have been underestimating what is happening in terms of fertility change in Africa,” says Jose Rimon II of Johns Hopkins University.