From UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity:
The Gelede is performed by the Yoruba-Nago community that is spread over Benin, Nigeria and Togo. For more than a century, this ceremony has been performed to pay tribute to the primordial mother Iyà Nlà and to the role women play in the process of social organization and development of Yoruba society...[continue reading]
image courtesy of Yves Parfait Koffi
