Welcome to the Oyotunji African Village Image Database

This compilation of these images represents an archive of photos taken by cultural anthropologist, Kamari Maxine Clarke as well as contributions of Oyotunji practitioners from a range of archives taken over a forty year period.

From the formation of the Oyotunji orisa-voodoo movement to its contemporary manifestations, the imagery of the periods represented here ranges from 1960-1970; 1971-1980; 1981-1990; 1991-2000; to 2001-2008. All of these periods represent the formation of its making, marking a period in which it emerged out of United States Jim Crow Segregation, Black Power Protests, Civil Rights Possibilities, and Various Cultural Heritage movements that resonate today with its transnational linkages with West African Orisa practices, Cuban and US Santeria/Lukumi, Brazilian Condomble, and the Trinidadian orisha traditions.