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The Alaafin of Oyo (Iku Baba Yeye), Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, was today honoured in Brazil at the ongoing annual carnival for arts and culture.

The Oyo Empire was also celebrated and the spirit of Sango invoked at the outing of the Salgueiros Escola de Samba in Sapucaí, Rio de Janeiro.

Sango’s proverbial Axé of Justice was beautifully sculpted to suit the colours of the deity who, according to Yoruba history was the third Alaafin of Oyo. The seat of the King of Oyo was highly decorated along with the constructed moving stage. Participants sang and chanted incantations in the Yoruba language to describe the sovereignty of the Oyo Empire.

They also dabbled into a controversial subject as stories were told in their songs describing Alaafin of Oyo as the number one in the Yoruba Kingdom, the legitimate representation of Oodua, the one that ruled after his father.

The homage was made as credit to the Yoruba kingdom and the Orishas that influenced the culture and tradition of the African-Brazilian people since the end of the trans-atlantic slave trade in 1882.

The songs, sculptural representations of Sango at Sapucaí described Orisha Sango as God of Justice and a one-time Alaafin of Oyo.

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