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Deidre Prescod used to be initiated into the Ifa culture and journeyed to Nigeria as a way to safe actual details and know the way as to the functionality of rituals which are essential for any Ifa start up. The e-book Letters from Nigeria - Reflections of an Ifa begin is the author’s mirrored image of her reviews whereas learning the religious and cultural culture in the course of her 4 years dwelling one of the Yoruba humans of Nigeria in West Africa. it really is a decent to a fault account of the knowledge won on her trip a mirrored image such as her a number of relationships as sister, pal, mom, grandmother and priestess. it's also a suggestion to Ifa devotees and practitioners. Deidre embraced the chance to benefit and perform Ifa as taught by means of the Babalawos (father of mysteries) conventional Yoruba clergymen. the knowledge during this booklet is from basic resources, amassed from her travels all through Yoruba land. Her own hands-on studies and direct interviews with the custodians of this old knowledge make this ebook an anthropological locate. for this reason this publication will attract the sociologist, the historian the cultural anthropologist and seekers of historical spirituality and knowledge usually.
Deidre a unmarried mom and grandmother left her domestic and company to the fear and amazement of her sons and all who knew her to pursue this pressing non secular name. The technical details in those letters is sound and will be simply authenticated. it really is her interpretation of the data that could look radical. This e-book Letters From Nigeria re-forges a damaged hyperlink among African's within the Diaspora and their brothers and sisters at the African Continent highlighting facets in their strong innate identification and spirituality that resonates naturally.