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Babalawo



Babalawo or Iyanifa (also Babaaláwo in full, and pronounced Baba-a-láwo) is a Yorùbá title that denotes a Priest of Orunmila, the Yoruba god or Orisha of Wisdom operating through Ifa, the divination system. Orunmila in the Yorùbá tradition knows the past, present and future.



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