ARABA YEMI ELEBUIBON: YORUBA CULTURAL AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY

Chief Ifayemi Elebuibon, an author,paywright, is a popular Ifa priest from South-western part of Nigeria. The 11th Araba of Oshogbo,  was born in Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria. He cames from a family acclaimed to be one of the authorites on Yoruba Traditional Institutions, A direct descendant of Olutimehin, one of Co-founder of the City of Osogbo. He began his priesthood training at age four.

He received his formal education through correspondence courses. His parents insisted on his through grounding in the traditional institution and culture through his apprenticeship with renowned priests of the day. Araba Ifayemi is a poet, performing artist, play write, herbalist and practising babalawo (ifa priest). He has published several books, and scholarly papers on various aspects of Yoruba traditional religion and culture.

Araba Ifayemi is also a recording artist with several credits on Yoruba poetic genre known as Ewi. His mostly social commentaries and parallax snaps cultural philosophy.

His traditional morality drama, Ifa Olokun Asorodayo called from Odu Ifa, was presented on Nigeria National Television Network popular series.

Yemi is an international scholar in-residence at San Francisco State University in California, USA, where he lectures on African Traditional religion and philosophy.

He is the founder of Ancient Philosophy International, Osogbo, Nigeria a Centre dedicated to teach African traditional religion and preforming arts.

He has trained a lot of students and initiated many into the tradition.

Yemi numerous awards and recognitions include lifetime achievement chieftancy as the Araba of Osogbo a title that elevated him to a venerated position in the priesthood hierarchy.
He has also been honored with a doctorate degree of the Brandice University USA. He is an associate staff at Institute of Cultural. he was appointed a vice chairman of Board of Traditional Medicine, Osun State. He is also the current president of International Congress of Orisa tradition and culture, Nigeria Chapter.

He maintain a botanica and mini-museum at his House of Culture that has become a must stop for visitors to Osogbo for teh city annual Osun Festival.
Yemi has travelled to many parts of the world at the invitation of organizations, institutions, colleges, and universities and local governments.
Membership and Awards include;Member of Rotary Club Osogbo; Member of Yoruba Centre of Excellence; Trophy Second Prize Bauch Nafest 89; Merit Award; Justice of Peace, Government of Osun State; Merit Award Osogbo Progressive Union; Silver Trophy Government of Oyo State by Sasa Eniyan Ore Sanya;An honourary decorated degree of traditional religion upon the Recomendation (USA 27-7-1993); etc.

UPDATE:MAN CAUGHT WITH HUMAN BODY PARTS IN OSHOGBO REVEALS HE PLANNED TO USE IT FOR MONEY RITUAL AFTER RAMADAN!

Ajibade Rasheed ,38, an indigene of Ikirun in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Osun State, who was caught with a fresh head of a woman, intestine, lung, vagina, liver and a bottle containing blood during a stop and search operation by the police in Osogbo in his car with registration no: LSD 987 DJ,has explained that he planned to use them for money ritual after the ongoing Ramadan ends.

Speaking with journalists at the Osun State Police Command headquarters, the suspect said the client, who is also an Alfa and specialised in healing mentally challenged persons, simply brought the human parts to him and left.

He said;

“I am an Alfa and a herbalist. There is a man, who is also an Alfa; he came to my place and told me that he wanted to do money ritual. I told him that getting the materials needed for the ritual would be difficult but he agreed to bring the materials by himself.


“So, the man came on Wednesday morning from Aagba town with the human parts for the ritual. The body parts he brought are fresh human head, hands, inner parts and vagina. I did not know that he would bring the materials that morning.
“I told him that we are in the Ramadan period and he should wait till after Ramadan before I could do it. This is my first time of doing this kind of money ritual although I do other ones but not this type.
“The man told me he wanted to do money ritual and I told him the difficulty in finding the materials and he told me that he would get them and he did.
I am a Muslim and I’m fasting also even when he brought the human parts I told him that this is not the time for such ‘work’.
“The man told me the situations of things in his life and pleaded with me to help him to do it. He did not want the kind of money rituals, which would not bring huge amount of money. He wanted the kind of ritual which brings huge amount of money.”
The interview session with journalists abruptly ended when the policemen, who arrested him asked him to pour the content of the bag on the ground for everybody to see.

Despite wearing nose masks, most police officers present and journalists started retching while few other actually threw up due to the stench which oozed out of the sack.

The head was still dripping blood but the liver and the lungs were already decaying.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Finihan Adeoye, said the police would ensure that Olorungbebe was apprehended and the identity of the female victim was revealed.

Adeoye said,

“We will surely arrest his partner. We want to know how he got those humans parts, where he got them from and the identity of the victim.”