Ooni inaugurates Brazil's National Orisa Day.
Quilombola area in Brazil is the first place outside of Africa to get the designation when the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, formally delivered it.
The highly regarded Yoruba monarch also gave a speech at Brazil's Federal House of Assembly on Tuesday to formally launch the nation's first-ever Orisa Day.
According to a statement from Ooni's media assistant, Moses Olafare, Ogunwusi spoke before the Brazilian Parliament at a special session for Isese practitioners commemorating the country's Orisa Day.
The Ooni said that through integrating cultures and promoting Yoruba culture across the diaspora, the royal visit aimed to close the gap between the Yoruba people and the rest of the globe.
He claims that the Nigerian Royal Father and his entourage landed in Bahia, Brazil, on Sunday and met with President Lula da Silva in Brasilia, Brazil, on Monday.
At the Quingoma neighborhood of Lauro de Freitas, in the Salvador Metropolitan Area, the Ooni presented the title.
The delivery of the title of Yoruba territory, which would promote and protect the Yoruba history, culture, and language in the community, was hailed by the people of Quilombola.
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