Ajido, Nigeria - Excitement grew in the crowd as the Zangbeto Voodoo festival reached a climax, with scores of colourful palm-frond figures representing the traditional guardian of the night. As ...

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. See pictures below.

The traditional two-week religious celebration is believed to be 600 years old. ... In pictures: Nigeria festival celebrates Yoruba fertility goddess Osun Osogbo. 25 August 2019.

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Experts on traditional religion in Nigeria say the festival was started by the founders of the town of Osogbo around 600 years ago. They had planned to build their houses by the river bank, but as ...