2013年12月18日 · Asked to explain why the ROF uses the name "Ogboni", the Olori Apena stated: What baffles many people and even church members is the name Ogboni. But their worry would have not been necessary if they bothered to find out what Ogboni means. Ogboni is a circle of elderly, wise people who advise the Oba on matters affecting the

The Apena was the spokesman of the Ogboni society which was a central and important institution in all Yoruba states. The Ogboni has been defined as a ‘secret and ritually united corporation of political and religious leaders and its special priest.

Political control asserted by the Ogboni is not limited to the power of life and death over the Alafin. Another component of Ogboni control is its judicial authority. Whenever blood is shed upon the ground, except in sacrifice, a leading titled official of Ogboni, called the Apena, summons the parties involved and hears their dispute.

Ògbóni (also known as Òsùgbó in Ijèbú) is a fraternal institution indigenous to the Yoruba -speaking polities of Nigeria, Republic of Bénin and Togo. [1] . The society performs a range of political and religious functions, including exercising a profound influence on monarchs and serving as high courts of jurisprudence in capital offenses. [2][3]

Ògbóni in ancient Yorubaland was the exclusive formal conclave of elders whose duty was to administer the community. The Ògbónis were statesmen whose chief business was to enact laws and judge cases. They also elect, discuss with, and advise the king in all matters of governance.

The Ogboni is thought of by the Yoruba generally as supporting the power of the Alafin. The Apena, one of the leading officials of the cult there, once said to me, 'Every Qba must have Ogboni so that people may fear him.' While the BasQrun is celebrating the Qrun festival in QyQ, the Alafin in the secrecy of the Ogboni lodge

2014年7月14日 · Reverend Ogunbiyi was the founder and the first Olori Apena of the Reformed Ogboni Fraternity, he was honoured with the most distinguished Commander of the British Empire, CBE, and he was Honourable Member of the Legislative Council, and the Licentiate of Theology, L.TH.

2000年12月31日 · What Has The Church Got To Do With Ogboni? The Reformed Ogboni Fraternity (ROF) was formed by a reverend gentleman in 1914. Dickson Adeyanju traces the origin of this society which is looked...

THE anthropomorphic brass staff of the Yoruba Ogboni Society-the edan Ogboni-holds a position of isolation and aesthetic distinction within the Yoruba plastic. Whereas traditional wood-carving is humanistic in its identification with life, is spontaneous, descriptive, and experimental in idiom, Ogboni art is iconic-arche-

2012年4月13日 · According to Idowu, the Ogboni institution's main goal is to promote law and order in their respective communities according to the "laws of the gods," thereby creating an "awareness" that sin is a punishable offence against the norms of society and that "acts of sacrifice and rites of purification only remedy serious crimes" (Idowu 2005, 188).