Brian Willson is a babaláwo (specialist in the Yorùbá system of Ifá) and a senior member of temple Ilé Òkànràn Onílè based in Ibadan and New York. He has been a practitioner of African diasporic religious practices for over forty years. He received his DMA from City University of New York Graduate Center, has lectured or performed in over twenty-five countries, and is a trustee on the board of Education Africa.
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