Two Nigerian filmmakers are set to release “Ife,” a love story about two women but they face a battle with Nigeria’s strict censors and in a country where being gay is illegal.

This head probably depicts an Ooni, a ruler of the West African kingdom of Ife that flourished between AD 1100 and 1500. The portrait-like realism of Ife heads is unique in African art.

The Ife show — co-organized by New York’s Museum for African Art, the Spanish Fundacion Botin and Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments — drops another bombshell.

The rediscovery of Ife heads at the beginning of the 20th century overturned assumptions about the sophistication of African art “Head, possibly a king,” 12th-14th century. On view at the ...

OSOGBO—The 201 deities spread around the ancient city of Ile-Ife, Osun State, yesterday crowned the 51st Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, at Oke Ora, the spot where Oduduwa, the ...

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ọjájá II, has emphasised that the people of Okun in Kogi State and Kwara are part of the Yoruba dynasty.He urged them to always remember their ...

A 40-year-old accountant, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, is crowned the new Ooni of Ife in Nigeria - one of the most revered Yoruba kings.

Two Nigerian filmmakers are set to release “Ife,” a love story about two women but they face a battle with Nigeria’s strict censors and in a country where being gay is illegal.

Comments. 9 comments; 1. At 10:06 on 30 June 2010, Robert Allen wrote:. No mention has been made of the series of small holes round the mouth and neck of the Ife head, which look as if they ...