The annual Ọ̀ṣun festival is a week-long event that usually takes place between the end of July and early August.

The festival is marked with daily performances of people dancing, singing, playing the drums and showing off elaborate costumes to appease Osun, the goddess of fertility. Adedayo Okedare/BBC The ...

The procession can take more than two hours to reach the river. The procession ends at ... Grove continues on for hours. Invoke the goddess Osun during the Osun-Osogbo festival using hand-made ...

Devotee and worshippers of river goddess Osun, pray while some collect water by the Osun River during the annual Osun Osogbo Festival. Tolu Owoeye/Shutterstock What does it mean to the Yorùbá ...