Yoruba Proverbs with Bidemi Ologunde
Yoruba Proverbs with Bidemi Ologunde is a Yoruba language, culture, and wisdom podcast that uses timeless òwe (proverbs) to interpret modern life. Hosted by Nigerian-born intelligence analyst, author, and podcaster Bidemi Ologunde, each episode connects Yoruba proverbs with contemporary events, diaspora identity, family, character, values, tradition, and everyday decision-making for fluent speakers, learners, and anyone interested in Yoruba heritage.
Yoruba Proverbs with Bidemi Ologunde
Yoruba Cosmology and the UFO Question
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Check out host Bidemi Ologunde's new show: The Work Ethic Podcast, available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com
In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde traces how Yoruba cosmology understands contact with "sky beings," from Ọ̀run and Ayé, Odùduwà’s chain, Ọ̀ṣun's skyward journey, and Ṣàngó's thunderstones to folk accounts of night-flying àjẹ́, then connects those themes to contemporary UFO/alien talk. He explores how these ideas traveled through the Atlantic slave trade and live on in the diaspora (Cuba's Lukumí/Santería, Brazil's Candomblé, in Haiti, Trinidad, and beyond), including spiritist currents that speak of otherworldly guides. Along the way, Bidemi highlights how Ifá verses, proverbs, and Egúngún traditions frame "visitation" as ancestral or divine rather than extraterrestrial, and how modern Yoruba communities sometimes bridge both lenses. A concise, story-rich look at continuity, adaptation, and why Yoruba thought treats the boundary between worlds as porous.
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