Winner of the 2006 Urban Spectrum National Black Book Awards in the category of African Spirituality, priestess Iya Ifalola Omobola has observed the Orisha/Ifa system of Nigeria for the past 30 years.  SHe was initiated to Orisha in 1994 and to Ifa in 2004.  In addition to her book, “Heeding the Ancestral Call“, she also publishes a quarterly ezine entitled Oya N’Soro, which can be found at oyansoro.com, as well as her website – windwhispers.org – both of which explore ancestral and other modes of healing for Africans in America.  She and Baba Ifalowo Asante Nalls run the temple, Imole Agbo Iwosan, which means The House of Light’s Medicine is for Healing, in Pembroke Township, Illinois.

Known primarily for her spiritual work, Iya Ifalola is also an established writer who is currently working on her second book.  Here you can taste a number of her different writings.

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Iya Ifalola Omobola